Word: turning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...load the bases up with two outs. The guy who replaced me behind the plate was up. I was on deck, trying to adjust the grip of my bat so that it would lessen the pain in my thumb. He struck out, and before I could turn around and get my glove for the top of the inning, Coach ran up to me and said something like this...
Under Torrijos, the Democratic Revolutionary Party (P.R.D.) became a vehicle through which once powerless nonwhites exerted new political influence. The ( party, in turn, benefited from its tight relationship with the PDF, which dispensed patronage favors. Thus, when the U.S. demands Noriega's resignation, it steps into Panama's complex mix of race and class politics. "This is a battle that is much larger than Noriega," says a senior official of the P.R.D. "Bush's people say they have no quarrel with the military. The problem is that the old-line oligarchs would use Noriega's expulsion as a chance...
...Norman's nearest neighbor, Jim Wright. From his house Wright can gaze up at a rugged outcropping where Freeport has found a modest ore body. If the site is mined, Wright worries, what will happen to a gurgling, gushing spring that forms the headwaters of Niagara Creek, which in turn fills a large reservoir Wright uses to irrigate a wide green hay meadow...
What kind of rebel officers risk their lives to storm the lair of a hated military dictator, capture him at gunpoint, decline either to kill him or to turn him over to U.S. forces standing by to receive him, then let him contact his mistress, who calls loyal troops to his rescue...
...seemed to be the brave but muddled men who staged it. But congressional critics from both parties lambasted George Bush for failing to dispatch American troops to snatch the dictator and spirit him back to the U.S., where he is wanted on drug-trafficking charges. The White House in turn scolded Congress for trying to micromanage a fast-moving crisis and for hypocritically turning hawkish after earlier rejecting Administration plans for covert action against the strongman. There is plenty of blame to go around...