Word: train
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really have been thinking about it because since the Games in Seoul, we did a lot of traveling," Joyner said. "My training has been lacking, and that's not usually how I train...
...train seriously for the Olympics, I'll have to sacrifice some plans, and I don't know if I'm prepared to do that," Rainey says...
...work," Harvard Coach Ed Krass said. "She's definitely at the top of her game. It's good to see one of the Harvard players do well in January. She made a commitment to train harder over the break. She should do very well...
...Christmas Day, 70 Africans sought -- and got -- police escorts to the Nanjing train station so they could file complaints with their respective embassies in Beijing. As they marched through the streets, the Africans rallied foreign students from campuses of other universities along the way. At the station, riot troops herded roughly 150 foreign students, including four Americans, onto buses and confined them in a hotel 50 miles away. At week's end they were being held incommunicado while diplomats negotiated with Beijing officials for their release. Meantime, some demonstrators demanded that provincial-government leaders "punish the ruffians to promote...
This sudden, inexplicable eruption of violence typifies what many find troubling about Oates' fiction. If the purpose of art is to provide a comprehensible context, an explanatory train of circumstances, for human activity, then Oates certainly falls short. She knows this risk and consistently runs it anyhow. Her obsession remains the untidy world where everyone actually lives, where headlines daily scream out the unthinkable and where nice people find themselves behaving in ways they can barely imagine, much less condone. The McCulloughs' marriage, despite outward appearances, is far from perfect; the author deftly reveals the stresses and fault lines that...