Word: reached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wasn't going to recieve. On that day I thought of the many wonderful friends I had had and the chance that I would never see them again. I thought of my family. It was love that I cried for that day. From that bed I wanted to reach out and hold hands with everyone I had ever known...I vowed I would get off of that futon and fight the leukemia again just to have the chance to slow down and to love. There is nothing more important or more powerful...
...have seemed the storybook fulfillment of her father's fantasies. In the first truly free elections since the late President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq began his eleven years of autocratic rule, voters catapulted her Pakistan People's Party to dominance in the nation's politics and put Bhutto within reach of the prime- ministership once held by her beloved father. Dreams do come true. Scores do get settled...
...family values, the irresponsible sexuality of the young -- what Jackson called "babies making babies." They said that drugs were hollowing out the country's moral center. They called for greater discipline in the schools. Both wanted to get tough on crime. Both used their church network while trying to reach beyond it. Robertson presented himself as a corporate executive and university president; Jackson presented himself as a diplomat-negotiator who had brought back hostages, kept factories and farms from closing, and transcended racial divisions. Robertson gave us a right-wing populism that had shed the overt racism of George Wallace...
...told Bob Dylan. "There is no particular musical roots or heritage for us. In Ireland there is a tradition, but we've never plugged into it." Dylan, who has nurtured and torn up a few roots in his time, knew just what to say: "Well, you have to reach back into music. You have to reach back...
...another. The title comes from Bullet the Blue Sky, their rabble-rousing apocalypse about American muscle flexing in Central America ("In the locust wind comes a rattle and hum . . . Outside is America"), but the substance of these various tour diaries is, in fact, an exploration. U2 did more than reach back. They immersed themselves in American musical culture, splashed and reveled about, and came away baptized...