Word: sided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Oprah's spiritual side appears to be genuine and deeply felt. She reads a Bible verse every morning and contends that her life is directed by a kind of supernaturally inspired instinct. "I am guided by a higher calling," she says. "It's not so much a voice as it is a feeling. If it doesn't feel right to me, I don't do it." If this sounds like a new-age version of Norman Vincent Peale, it is also the sign of someone profoundly comfortable with herself. "It is easier to go with the river than...
...York Congressman also carries some Western clout as a native Californian and former San Diego quarterback. He appeals to G.O.P. right- wingers and supply-side purists and has a gritty optimism that could attract blue-collar Reagan Democrats. But he has already proved himself an uninspiring campaigner in the primaries...
Meanwhile, Iraqi forces completed a series of thrusts deep into Iranian territory and pulled back to their side of the border. By Baghdad's admission, the attacks were mounted to capture enemy soldiers for use as bargaining chips in an eventual prisoner swap with Iran. Iraq claimed the raids netted 12,000 new captives, bringing its prisoner-of-war total to 35,000, still well short of the 50,000 Iraqis held in Iran...
...skin the deer, and Dad looks at it and says, 'I'm going to have that mounted.' Then he was tearin' the skin off, and we found where I had shot it real close to the tail where it went through the backbone and came out the other side. And Dad says, 'If you goin' to shoot a deer, you got to shoot it up around the shoulder or neck.' I say, 'I know.' You see, it was really Dad's deer...
...especially close in the pre-Leonard days. Since Bianca and Sherri moved, Bianca's affections have shifted in the direction of her mother. Last November Bianca wrote in her school journal, "I would like to say something nice to a special person, Mom. My mom always stand by my side when I needed her. My mom always love me, took very good care of me. And always teached me wrong to right. I always love my mother." Mother and daughter grew up together. In some respects, they were raised more as sisters than as mother and daughter. "We talk...