Word: rue
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unions had united under a single banner. Filled with grief and revulsion, 150,000 people joined a solemn three-hour march through Paris to denounce racism and antiSemitism. The protest was in response to the terrorist bombing of a Paris synagogue two weeks ago. Four passers-by on the Rue Copernic were killed and nine others seriously wounded. The bomb exploded prematurely, while 600 worshipers were still in the midst of Sabbath services; had it gone off a few minutes later, police estimated, "a hundred people would have been killed...
Execution of the Gang of Four would cause little uproar in China. Few would rue the demise of the group's leader, Jiang Qing, 66, a once sexy, grade-B movie actress from Shanghai, who in 1937 crossed the country to the Communist revolutionary base in northwest China and promptly captured the heart of the young guerrilla leader Mao Tse-tung. Mao's live-in arrangement with her-which apparently ended a few years before his death in 1976 -was tolerated by his comrades on the condition that he keep his new commonlaw wife away from politics...
MONTREAL--They started coming Thursday night. French-speaking fanaties in crested hockey jackets waved Expos pennants up and down Rue Sherbrooke, having made the trip down from Trois Rivieres or Quebec City that afternoon. Distinguished-looking men in business suits stepped off the Air Canada non-stop from Toronto with Expos buttons on their lapels. Frustrated New Englanders arrived from Brattleboro and Bangor, wearing Red Sox jackets and Expos hats...
...creates more than a dozen complex, contradictory characters through their speech rhythms, the way they walk and sit and prepare food, and the diminishing space between the heads of two people trying to decide whether to spend the night with each other. The characters are like the film: funny, rue ful, modest, utterly engaging - alive...
...Rue, who umpired in the American League from 1938 to 1947, agrees. "I've been mobbed, cussed, booed, kicked in the ass, punched in the face, hit with mud balls and whisky bottles, and had everything from shoes to fruits and vegetables thrown at me ... An umpire should hate humanity." Ernie Stewart, a wartime umpire, laments the loneliness that goes with the job: "Every city is a strange city; you don't have a home." Bill McKinley, a 19-year man, thinks of the jeers and catcalls as a kind of minor league tryout: "Some fellows never made...