Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aged John Huston filmed The Dead -- the last of his 37 features -- in great serenity, just before he died last summer. In it he set forth his affection for the writer he said he loved best and, paradoxically, for the Ireland to which he exiled himself for the midpassage of a life that was, in its way, as restless and troublesome as Joyce...
...approaching this New Year's Day with that same thought. "Usually," says Niekro, 48, meaning every year of the past 24, "my blood starts flowing as soon as the holidays are over. I don't know how I'm going to feel a month from now, or when the summer starts to get hot, or when the World Series comes around. I wonder what it's going to be like, never again seeing that look in the batter's eye with the bases loaded...
Seaver took a stab at holding on last summer by playing in the minors, and lately Jackson has been waffling on his announced plans to leave. They are 43 and 41 years old, respectively. "The compulsion to play this game is something," Niekro says. "I don't know how many letters I've got over the years, how many strangers have dropped by my hotel, how many fathers have offered to pay me money to teach their boys the knuckleball. 'Can you at least show me how to grip it?' they say. But I'd have to take them...
...Raisa, from Murmansk in the north to Kamchatka on the shores of the Pacific. On several of his tours he has displayed an easy informality and an almost impish distaste for ceremonial oratory. Entering the hall of the Starnikovsky Farm near Moscow to talk to livestock breeders last summer, he veered away from the row of seats on the tribunal and perched on the edge of the table so that he could be closer to the crowd. In October, at the Baltic Shipyards in Leningrad, a spokesman for the workers began a monotone welcoming speech expressing a wish that perestroika...
...only the first name of her husband, Anatoli, has been disclosed); the granddaughter's name (it has been reported as both Oksana and Xenia); her age (probably seven); and the sex and name of a second grandchild (Gorbachev proudly told former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who visited Moscow last summer, that one had just been born, but would disclose no more than that...