Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, the Larries--as the Saints were called during their gloomy days--came to Bright Center with an 0-7 record. Moe was SLU's leading scorer and Curly the number one goalie. The Larries fell to the Crimson, 7-0, and were laughed out of town...
...locate the scene. With a minimum of identifying costume, actors shift character: when the young lovers (Daniel Nathan Spector and Louise Roberts) have a first tentative date at a soda fountain, Holbrook abruptly becomes the attendant who serves them. As Wilder points up through risible "lectures" about this archetypal town's economy, politics, demographics and even geology, what matters about its people is not the naturalistic detail but the philosophic essence...
...medical treatment. They found their host unusual in several respects. Says Soviet Historian Roy Medvedev: "A regional party first secretary who was intelligent and congenial would have been considered untypical. If Gorbachev had yelled, sworn, been a heavy drinker or a high liver with a rest house outside of town where officials could be entertained by pretty waitresses, that would have been considered normal behavior...
Raisa is rarely mentioned by name in the Soviet press. She was born in the Siberian town of Rubtsovsk in Altai Krai, though she told reporters at a parade in Moscow last month that she is "absolutely Russian." According to her official biography, her father was a railway engineer. Raisa's chosen profession is teaching. When the newly married Gorbachevs moved to Stavropol in 1955, Raisa found a job at a local school and continued to teach for the next 23 years. When her husband was summoned back to Moscow in 1978 to take charge of Soviet agriculture, Raisa became...
...five-hour transatlantic time difference. Lynch called up his traders with sell orders, since the wave of redemption requests had swelled over the weekend. On his list of stocks to be dropped: Abbott Laboratories, Amoco, Capital Cities/ABC and many more. Then Lynch traveled to the small coastal town of Dingle and checked in at the Sceilig Hotel just before 2:30 p.m., as the 9:30 a.m. starting bell at the Big Board was about to ring. Lynch got on the phone and stayed riveted to the receiver as his colleagues at Fidelity described the sickening free fall of stock...