Word: throughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The shouting erupted as John Cardinal O'Connor began his Sunday-morning sermon in St. Patrick's Cathedral on New York City's Fifth Avenue. "You bigot, O'Connor, you're killing us!" yelled one protester. Others stretched out in the aisles or chained themselves to pews. As police tried...
Unusual turns of happenstance conspired to lure the self-effacing Okoye away from the dusty city of Enugu in eastern Nigeria. Son of a onetime army officer, Okoye originally yearned for a soccer career. "It was soccer, soccer, soccer through elementary and high school," he recalls, "but as I grew...
Although most running backs taper off at 30, Okoye will probably endure well beyond that benchmark because of his late start. "Christian hasn't taken the usual hammering through high school and college, and although he's 28, he has the football body of a 22-year-old," says his...
When visitors arrive for an approved visit with Mandela, they drive through the prison farm's main gate and across its rustic grounds until they reach a fenced-in compound. After registering at a guard station, leaving cameras behind, guests are ushered into the parlor of a three-bedroom stucco...
The younger Sinyavsky's preparations for an uncertain future were plodding by comparison. After World War II, he studied Russian literature at Moscow State University. During the early '50s he held a research job at the Gorky Institute of World Literature. But then, in 1956, the scholar-critic secretly wrote...