Word: miles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team, makes playing defense as thrilling--and dangerous--as parachuting with an umbrella. If the ball is heading toward the Harvard goal, you can bet Groome will be charging after it. And if she gets a hold of the ball with her stick, beware. It will either go a mile on the ground, or fly into the air in wicked line-drive fashion, daring an opposing forward to stand...
...International Airport last week as Pope John Paul II emerged from a jumbo jet into the blazing Florida sun. Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy waited as the Pope, eight years after his last visit, stepped again onto U.S. soil to begin his long-awaited eleven-day, 17,000-mile pastoral journey.* Said John Paul on his arrival: "I come as a pilgrim, a pilgrim in the cause of justice and peace and human solidarity, striving to build up the one human family." But the Polish-born Pontiff had also come to listen, and to respond carefully to the divergent...
...Long Beach Island, N.J., a mile-long strip of supposedly "red-bagged" hospital waste, including used hypodermic needles, washes up on shore, closing down a national park for four days...
...trip also underscores the change in intra-German relations. For years the two states were bitter cold war enemies, unable to reach even a basic agreement recognizing each other's de facto national existence until 1972. Today, while still separated by an 863-mile border bristling with armed patrols and barbed wire, the two states have settled into a wary but increasingly pragmatic relationship, held together by more than 70 bilateral agreements governing everything from postal communications to electricity sharing. "German-German relations used to be much worse than East-West relations in general," says Wolfgang Berner, deputy director...
...half-century ago, when the sun rose in the clear prairie sky and the first school bell had tolled its sharp warning, the ragged muster for the two-mile journey to the old gray schoolhouse would begin...