Word: turnly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They all laughed, but I remember panicking. I wondered, "What if I am with the wrong family?" Fearing for my life, I plotted my escape, waiting until they gave me the signal that they were about to turn on me. They've certainly given me reasons to be suspicious...
...conversation with her starts like any other between a mother and son. She asks me first about school, and later, why I stay out so late all of the time. But then, these innocent discussions usually turn into another one of her brainwashing sessions...
...surviving players Halberstam sought out, only Joe DiMaggio turned him down (not even mutual friend Edward Bennett Williams could twist his arm). Yet Halberstam's portrait of DiMaggio is the finest part of the book. The author has a tender, intuitive sympathy for the proud, remote athlete. DiMaggio does not need a writer to confirm his stature, but still he is lucky to have such a thoughtful, intelligent chronicler. Boston had its own superstar in Ted Williams, and that brings up the inevitable comparison between Halberstam's work and John Updike's classic account of Williams' last game, "Hub Fans...
...league corporate scandal. For more than three years, the IRS and the FBI investigated kickback schemes at Gulf Power, an electric utility based in Pensacola, Fla., and all they produced were the convictions of two former managers. But last month the affair took a sudden, dramatic turn. Moments after taking off from Pensacola, a company plane caught fire and crashed, killing its two-man crew and the only passenger...
...find out why more and more phones are being answered by computers these days and why the machines are driving many people nuts, turn to page...