Word: sides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glance. After Perez was sworn in, Castro, flanked by a huge entourage, swept out of the hall while a crowd of Venezuelans gawked and cheered. Quayle, under strict instructions from the White House not to send any inadvertent diplomatic signals by conversing with Communists, was hustled quietly out a side door. But not before a group of young Venezuelan women in the balcony begged him to stop for a picture, squealing "Ooooh! You are so handsome!" Teased about the incident at a press conference shortly afterward, Quayle frowned and grew testy: "I've had enough of that back home...
Since the 1960s we have had extraordinary freedom in this country, and we are seeing the good and the bad sides of the same coin. We've had tremendous prosperity. In many ways we have fulfilled the dream of the old utopian societies of the mid-19th century. But the other side of the coin of prosperity is money fever and the vanity that is the undoing of all the characters in Bonfire...
Perpetual viewing chapels would contain row after row of glass-fronted coffins, either filed away in drawers like precious jewelry, waiting only to pulled out and viewed; or propped up on end side by side, behind one vast glass partition, like a gigantic human butterfly collection. Each corpse would be freeze-dried exactly as the deceased would like to be remembered by its living loved ones...
...first two sets began and ended in a similar fashion. In both cases, the games started out very close, with numerous side-outs and see-sawing scores. Unfortunately for the Crimson, MIT gained the momentum about halfway into both games and cruised to victory...
...bright spot for Harvard was senior Don Gajewski's fine play, especially his hitting on the strong side. (The strong side refers to the side from which the hitter can best see the set. For a right-handed hitter, the left is the strong side...