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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really?" I say, edging towards the nearest blunt instrument, "I hadn't heard that...
...reciting Chairman Mao's aphorisms (they sound like the text of a self-help book to him), his tormentors marching into battle singing the Washington State fight song (which sounds martial to them). Beth is abducted by a mad CIA operative and offered as harem material to the nearest warlord- opium smuggler-defender of democracy. But Lawrence has time to save Tom's soul and Beth's body, open a nightclub, direct the hearts and minds of the natives as they build a bridge they do not need and teach them how to play New England baseball ("It's straight...
...emigrants' arrival in New York was the nearest earthly likeness to the final Day of Judgment, when we have to prove our fitness to enter Heaven," wrote Globetrotter Stephen Graham. (His report of a 1913 journey is one of scores dug up by Irving Howe for his fine book World of Our Fathers, to which this account is indebted.) Another observer recorded the anxiety that rent the hordes in steerage as they were taken off the steamships, loaded into lighters, taken to the quay: " 'There is Ellis Island!' shouted an immigrant who had already been in the United States...
North was terrible in the final round. But by and large the bunkers that he hit with astounding accuracy were the ones nearest the cups. In this way, he clearly outplayed the competition. Tze-Chung Chen, a gentle-spoken Taiwanese capable of shooting 2s on par fives and 8s on par fours, performed both of these wonders and lost the championship by a stroke. So did two others. Had Dave Barr, an ample Canadian, only believed he could have won the Open, he probably would have. South African Denis Watson's eternal miscalculation was % in loitering longer than the allotted...
...United Nations, named by an ex-Governor of Georgia who's going to be President of the United States; and then you will come back to be mayor of the city of Atlanta' -- the only thing I could have done would be to recommend them to the nearest mental institution...