Word: suspender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...station will suspend its coverage of the men's basketball team's away games, she said...
...cupboard began emptying fast two weeks ago when rebels using a Soviet SA-7 missile shot down a twin-engine Sudan Airways passenger plane as it took off from the southern town of Malakal for Khartoum. The attack, which killed all 63 persons aboard, caused international relief agencies to suspend food shipments to southern Sudan, where some 2 million people face death by starvation. The shooting took place just one day after the Sudanese People's Liberation Army had warned that "any plane, military or civilian, flying to Juba, Wau, Malakal or any other town in War Zone...
...Herschel Walker, 24, star running back for the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League and until now the highest-paid player in pro football at $1.5 million a year. After the U.S.F.L. announced it would suspend play next season, Walker dropped to third or fourth on the pay scale by signing a reported five-year, $5 million contract with the Dallas Cowboys of the rival National Football League. Nonetheless, "to get to play in a Cowboys uniform and in Texas is a great honor for me," he said at a news conference. But some...
...fated United States Football League last week took two more steps toward oblivion. First, team owners decided to suspend the 1986 U.S.F.L. season after jurors awarded the league a mere $1 in damages in its antitrust suit against the National Football League. Since that left 400 contracted U.S.F.L. players at least temporarily out of work, owners gave them the O.K. to try out for N.F.L. and Canadian teams...
...transposed the locale of Handel's Orlando when he set it at the Kennedy Space Center and on Mars. This approach, however, amounts to apologizing for the libretto. A better way is to insist on fidelity to both spirit and source. The trick is to get the audience to suspend its disbelief and to care as passionately about the amours of Sappho, Princess Iphise and the god Mercury...