Word: sweeter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, Iranian officials continued to vow retribution for the U.S. attack on the ship Iran Ajr, whose crew was caught laying mines in Persian Gulf waters two weeks ago. Declared Parliament Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani: "It is sweeter for us to have a direct confrontation with the U.S. because we would be fighting with the root cause of the war." In the gulf, however, Iran avoided any confrontation with U.S. warships as the tanker war raged anew...
...That psychological consciousness...takes me in, it takes everybody in. Except every once in a while you wake up and realize--What did Walt Whitman say? `I find no fat sweeter than that which sticks to my own bones.' Like, I'm bigger than the government, the government is a loser, the government is a flake...
...headed back to Back to the Future? Yes, but with a sweeter, slower spin on the time machine. For while Robert Zemeckis' box-office champ of 1985 was a hip '80s teenager's look at his funny parents back in the '50s, Peggy Sue (whose script was written long before Future's release) is a panorama of the same terrain as seen by an adult full of remembrance and regret. The teen traveler played by Michael J. Fox was hurled back to a time he knew only from the decade's recycled pop culture. Peggy Sue's trip is spookier...
...ranked player, Ivan Lendl, 26, in straight sets with a 150-m.p.h. serve that blurred across the center court's slick grass surface for 15 aces and with volleys that edged deep or skidded down the sidelines. For the West German wunderkind, this year's win was even sweeter than last year's. At a postgame press conference he announced, "I really proved I can play well on grass and proved I can be a Wimbledon champion." But on courts other than grass, he modestly allowed, "I am just one of the best. I'm still beatable. I'm human...
...depressive thought that they had ceased to be themselves. The nation was taken over by Others. In the current recrystallization, Americans are asserting their past, their myths, their freedoms. They think of immigrants and New York Harbor and Ellis Island. But they fetch back, too, to a paler, sweeter image --in Robert Lowell's verse, "Main Street's shingled mansards and square white frames/ date from Warren G. Harding back to Adams./ old life! America's ghostly innocence...