Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Octoberfest attracted a wide variety of festivalgoers. Katherine L. Webster '87 brought her visiting parents to the festival "to show them what Harvard undergraduates do in their spare time," although she noted that a large part of the crowd consisted of Cambridge residents...
...facility is new and looks gashed out and raw. They think of the meticulous garden left behind, and the house, the house! But over the years, as several lifetimes of gardening skills are applied to the grounds, the retirement community is brought to bursting with blooming things. The spare quarters, with their high toilet seats and their panic buttons, are fashioned into homes. Favorite art adorns some walls, wedding parties and grandchildren perch on the others. Acceptance is slow, but it arrives...
...just how good. Winning 35 of its first 40, playing 17 games on the road before losing any, Detroit dismissed the American League's East Division early and sent the Baltimore Orioles all the way to fifth place. When the Tigers reached 100 victories with a week to spare, Sparky Anderson became the first centennial manager in service to both leagues and maybe finally let go of Cincinnati...
...Dallas' self-assurance: "I finish what nature starts." You want to know what the week was like? It was like Hank Slikker, the gentle fellow who drove me in from the airport and who talked with equal enthusiasm about his Bible college and about "opportunity" and "space to spare" in Dallas. Dallas did not seem as thoughtful as Hank, but it appeared to live somewhere between the church and the bank. Saturday afternoon I walked among the gray and silver office buildings downtown, each showing off another in the tall sheets of reflecting glass, like dark vertical lakes. Buildings...
...economic policies, he was exiled to Jiangxi province in the southeast. There he lived under constant guard with his wife and stepmother in a five-room house on the grounds of an abandoned infantry academy. Deng got a job fitting parts together at a nearby tractor factory. In his spare time he tended his vegetable garden, raised chickens and read books on Marx, Lenin and Chinese history. He became popular with his neighbors, who would drop by to grind flour and make rice wine with him. Deng returned to Peking in 1973 after the death of his rival, Lin Biao...