Word: ranged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mean Postman, coach? Last night, Harvard rang a second time...
...Trang and Dalat provides a calming change of pace. Route 1, the two-lane highway linking Saigon with Hanoi, dips toward and away from the South China Sea on its way 250 miles up the coast. The van passes through places remembered dimly as wartime datelines. Phan Thiet, Phan Rang and Cam Ranh Bay, now a Soviet naval base, appear then recede outside the van's windows. Frequent ambushes and well-placed mines rendered many sections of Route 1 impassable to U.S. forces and the French military before them. Now a Manhattan-like roadscape of potholes and flooded-out bridges...
...double-bypass operation. Haig still pins the story on his old nemesis Richard Allen, Reagan's first National Security Adviser, who, Haig claims, kept a report on the psychological effects of bypass surgery in his White House office. Haig, laughing mirthlessly, says Allen even showed it to Nixon, who rang Haig for an explanation...
...vital forces had been decaying in this manner for several weeks when a phone rang in my dark, airless, and bitterly cold cubicle one day in the first week of January. Overwhelmed as it was by the whistle of the arctic gale forcing its way through fist-size holes in the plastic wrap covering my window, the sound of the ringer at first hardly reached me through the pile of soiled rags into which I had burrowed for warmth...
...stunning blow," says Winbush. Reporter-Researcher Anne Hopkins finds June 5 to be the day that continues to haunt. Turning on the radio as she awoke that morning, she learned that Robert Kennedy had been shot. "As I began to absorb what was happening, the phone rang," she says. "It was my mother, calling to sing Happy Birthday...