Word: squall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Absent father. Melancholy mom. Squall-free adolescence followed by the ritual college degree. But with no draft to face -- no obligations at all, really -- how is a bright, sensitive, well-off young fellow to grow up? Honoring tradition, Alec Stern decides to go abroad to try out maturity. His destination: Tokyo. Bicycle Days, a first novel by a 24-year-old Harvard graduate, is the wry, rueful story of Alec's efforts to cope with his job at a computer outfit and with a vexing foreign culture. Through his adoptive family, the friendship of an old fisherman and a troubling...
...though the 31-year-old Navratilova would gain a distinction long coveted -- a record ninth Wimbledon singles title, one more than Helen Wills Moody won back in the 1920s and '30s. Martina punched the air in anticipation. But silently the skies turned from summer sun to North Atlantic squall, and Steffi simply and unceremoniously broke the veteran's serve again and again. When the carpet bombing from Graf's forehand was over, the score was 5-7, 6-2, 6-1, and a tournament official had to show the slightly abashed young woman how to hold the trophy...
...incident was the latest squall in an increasingly stormy relationship between London and Dublin. Like the weather over the Irish Sea, ties between the two countries can be subject to abrupt changes. The sun came out in 1985, when the Anglo-Irish accord was signed, in which Britain granted Ireland a voice in the affairs of Northern Ireland. Since then a series of controversial British decisions has drawn complaints from Ireland...
WHEN THE RULES Committee of the Radcliffe Government Association recommends tomorrow that any student past her freshman year be allowed to sign out till any hour, it will run into a squall of opposition from a Briggs Hall contingent. The group contends that most "Cliffies cannot regulate their social lives without recourse to a set of stringent rules, and concludes that the College should retain its present restrictions. Their stand is short-sighted and does not deserve to be taken seriously be anyone concerned with Radcliffe's future as a leader in women's education...
...course there is, as Talbot quickly discovers. Thanks to the neglect of a drunken officer, the ship is trapped in a sudden squall, "taken aback" in nautical terms, crucial sails shredded and masts splintered. Talbot reacts first not to the danger but to the words used to describe it: "What a language is ours, how diverse, how direct in indirection, how completely, and, as it were, unconsciously metaphorical!" Next, the wounded vessel encounters the Alcyone, another British ship, bound for India and bearing news. The endless war with France is over. Napoleon Bonaparte has been driven into exile...