Word: occurate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bush chatted with kids and patted dogs, but there was some serious talk when he and Walesa strolled alone. Walesa had said he was not ready to run for President of Poland, but Bush reportedly reminded him that if successful ; reform was to occur, somebody should be ready to lead. Walesa poured out his hopes for luring $10 billion in investments to Poland, a vague scheme of venture capital that caught the fancy of the former Texas oil entrepreneur...
...trade you a Ruderman for a Feinstein!" No, this is not a proposed baseball-card swap, but the kind of deal that might occur among children with a religious bent: trading rabbi cards. Since they were introduced last August, more than 400,000 have been sold at 20 cents apiece, or 99 cents for a pack of five. On the back of each 4-in. by 6-in. card, printed in English and Hebrew, are the rabbi's dates of birth and death, the books he published and details about his life...
They are the commonplace tragedies that occur every day in communities across the U.S. The smoldering anger between a husband and wife ignites and ends with a pistol shot. The suffocating weight of depression vanishes, with gunfire, into the imagined peace of death. A hunting trip turns tragic, and a family is destroyed. The stupidity of playing with a loaded weapon leaves a young boy dead. The momentary incivility of a pair of barroom brawlers results in bloody death...
...logged by assistant picture editor Richard Boeth. Nation head researcher Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo spent most of nine weeks tracking the information on her computer. "I felt sadness for the wasted lives," she says, "and eventually an outrage that we allow so much unnecessary carnage by guns to occur...
Since flag burnings occur only rarely, the amendment would amount to using a sledgehammer to kill a flea. Moreover, legal scholars warn, one exception to free speech could lead to another...