Word: thousanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state's Democrats. Nothing as far as the eye can see spoils this strip of beach, which the Delaware Senator reclaimed from the military for his state, the site where he announced his first run for the Senate in 1972. Carrying plastic lawn chairs and coolers, more than a thousand Democrats are pouring into the park, twice as many as have ever come to the party get-together in the past. As three generations of Bidens alight -- his mother, father, sister, wife and two of his three children -- the Senator is swamped by friends and the curious, all straining...
...Three thousand students signed a pro-neutrality position paper for the clerical and technical workers union, hundreds of students sported anti-homophobia buttons, and almost every dinner table on campus became the site for debates about final club sexism...
...players -- members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox -- who conspired with gamblers to throw the World Series (no less) struck at the very center of boyhood. The fact that the consequence of the act was so dire -- permanent banishment from baseball -- in comparison with the paltry rewards (a few thousand dollars to each man) imparted ironic force to the story. And then there were the poignant sidebars: the little boy crying "Say it ain't so, Joe," as Shoeless Joe Jackson, greatest of the team's several great players, emerged from the grand-jury room one day; the sports-page...
...before Serena married a boy named Max: "It's just time to marry, that's all . . . I'm so tired of dating! I'm so tired of keeping up a good front! I want to sit on the couch with a regular, normal husband and watch TV for a thousand years...
...pieces of eight to go with their wedding attire. They were married in Blindheim, a village 20 miles northwest of Augsburg, which has the postal zip code of 8888. The ceremony was scheduled for precisely 88 min. past 8 a.m. on, of course, 8-8-88. Ten thousand philatelists also swarmed into Blindheim to collect a rare postmark...