Word: mined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to love watching baseball because I could see guys who had childhoods just like mine, and I could aspire to play along side of them. Now, I am afraid to watch baseball for fear of seeing my ideals crushed by a bunch of athletic criminals...
...P.L.O. effort, several weeks in the planning, was basically a theatrical gesture. But it promised to be an effective public relations ploy and infuriated the Israelis, who vowed to prevent the ship's arrival in Haifa. About 18 hours after the killing of the Fatah trio, a magnetic mine attached below the waterline of the Sol Phryne exploded, causing no injuries but leaving a 3 1/2-ft. by 1 1/2-ft. gash that disabled the vessel and prompted the P.L.O. to postpone el awda indefinitely. Israel officially denied complicity in the car bombing but hardly bothered to conceal its role in disabling...
...when she walks to her bank and deposits a $420 Social Security check. She thinks of her husband, a warehouseman who worked hard and saved for 30 years. "A deal is a deal is a deal," she declares. "I don't care what I'm worth; that money is mine...
...estate. Everybody perceives the sound, which Chekhov likens in the stage directions to a snapping string, but each has his own sense of what it meant. To one, it suggests the call of a heron; to another, an owl; and to a third, a cable breaking in a distant mine shaft. In most productions the moment is a throwaway. In a few it hints at the theme of an encroaching Industrial Revolution to which this doomed family cannot adapt. In the splendidly insightful version now at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the incident becomes a central metaphor. Just...
...enthusiasm seems to be a carryover from baseball season. Minneapolis department stores still are packed with Twins paraphernalia; newspapers still advertise for Homer Hankies. Friends of mine insisted on buying me a World Series sweatshirt. "After all, they may never win again," they explained...