Word: waded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leading this year's unit will be a trio of juniors--Fred Scherrer, Bill Wolff and Ben Elizondo. Toss in Wade Stokes and goalie Don Benson, both juniors and returning starters, and second-year Coach Chris Hafferty can claim a nucleus of proven talent...
...What should you do if someone tells you to buy drugs on the bus and they have a knife?" That anonymous written question startled Police Officer Nicholas Wade, who was leading a drug-education class at a Los Angeles elementary school; he had not expected sixth-graders to be so intimately acquainted with such street savagery. After a moment's hesitation, Wade read the question aloud to the 20 students, whose answer came without any hesitation. "Tell someone!" they chorused...
...pronounced "constitutionally wrong" the 1973 Roe vs. Wade opinion that overturned a state-court ruling against abortion...
...their graves muttering about Bucky Dent's pop-fly home run, Johnny Pesky's incompetent relay or the team's primal curse: the sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees to raise money for damn-fool Broadway shows. Still, there is grudging ground for hope in 1986. Wade Boggs, baseball's best hitter, has been flirting with .400 all year. Boston's pitching staff has the best earned-run average in the league. Rich Gedman has turned out to be a catcher. Jim Rice is having one of his best years, and the arrival of Don Baylor from the Yankees...
Abortion. Two weeks ago, in Thornburgh vs. American College of Obstetricians, the court reaffirmed its 1973 abortion decision, Roe vs. Wade, but the vote was a slim 5 to 4. Burger, who originally sided with the majority in Roe, dissented and indicated that the time had come to "review" the controversial 1973 ruling. It was not entirely clear whether Burger would vote to throw out Roe or, more likely, just shade it at the margins to uphold some state laws that make it more difficult for women to obtain abortions. The same uncertainty surrounds Justice O'Connor, who also dissented...