Word: roomed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moscow during the same period as hard-line Premier Li Peng. Unusually cosmopolitan for a Chinese leader, Jiang speaks Russian and English and reads several other languages. He advanced steadily in the machine and electronics industries until the Cultural Revolution temporarily derailed his career. Rehabilitated, he used his back-room skills in carrying out post-Mao economic policy to earn him election in 1982 to the Central Committee...
...Karen, 42, began gambling at age eight, flipping baseball cards against garage doors. At 13, she shot craps with boys in the co-ed locker room of Ralston Junior High in Belmont, Calif. As a young married woman, she started going to Las Vegas and the poker tables at Gardena, Calif. "All of a sudden, it wasn't the money anymore," she says. "It was the action, the high." On one occasion, she told her young son to wait on a street corner after school, and she would pick him up at 2:30 p.m. for a dental appointment...
...received Compound Q, which is derived from a Chinese cucumber-like plant. Among those taking the drug is Robert Pitman, 48, of San Francisco. Says he: "I was prepared to get it however I could. I was desperate enough that I would have injected it in my own living room...
...baseball player who lived his life according to the numbers, who kept statistics in so many categories that he seemed to be a portrait of a ballplayer painted by the numbers. On the contrary, the calculations of Pete Rose have been central to his charm. Who else remembers ordering room service in 1963, and that...
...have some great memories of my first year:our wine cooler' and cheez whiz party whichevolved into a pineapple fight that nearlydestroyed our room; Duke singing "Hey Jude" infalsetto in time with his walkman, unaware thatothers could hear him; the Mets winning the WorldSeries over the Red Sox; Ben participating in hisfirst-ever snowball fight...