Word: soon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soon survivors will suffer a host of complaints, from headaches and stomach pains to flashbacks and suicidal thoughts. Victims of Hurricane Hugo, which lashed the Southeastern U.S. last month, are showing the expected strains. "About all of the people we talk to have sleep disturbances," says Dr. James Ballenger, head of the psychiatric institute at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. "They are constantly fatigued. They leave briefcases at home. They forget appointments. They cannot concentrate...
...unexceptionable. National Review, for instance, recently hollered indignantly about the tilt of something I'd written. Fair enough; my prose was quoted accurately. Still other stories are both factually correct and somewhere between benign and laudatory. (These will be suitably framed and hung on my office wall as soon as time permits.) But there are enough unalloyed clinkers in this little collection to raise disturbing questions. If Washingtonian didn't get my pay right, how many other numbers in that story were wrong? If the New York Times -- ostensibly the newspaper of record -- adopts a dubious item from a gossip...
...those who were closest to it. Just 21 minutes before the start of the World Series' third game, the TV pictures from San Francisco's Candlestick Park started to jiggle. ABC sportscaster Al Michaels shouted, "We're having an earth . . .!" Then the screens went black as power was lost. Soon the network switched to a rerun of a sitcom...
Kasparov expressed hope that the Soviet Unionwould soon become a multi-party state...
Kasparov originally joined the party "to avoidcomplications" so he could compete in chess, hesaid. Speaking of his friends now, he added, "Wedon't see any reason to leave it now; we believewe will be expelled quite soon...