Word: weren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couple of tough years," Hughes said in the Rockies' locker room after Thursday's game. "I always knew I could play, but things weren't going right." The last cut on the Olympic team, he seemed destined to play out a minor league career until a sparkling training camp brought him to the big time...
Against the Bruins, the team really played like they wanted the win, but in the end, they weren't exactly sure...
Everyone except for six-year olds who've seen "Annie" knows that the thirties weren't all that happy. George Haimsohn and Robin Miller, who wrote the book and lyrics of Dames at Sea, surely do--but did they know what they were doing when they inserted a particularly offensive quasi-Oriental song and dance into their show? "Singapore Sue" (She's so soft and gentle/She's my favorite Oriental) plays on thirties fantasies about sinister Orientals: the pantomime that accompanies the song portrays a wicked slant-eyed madam shanghaiing girls to work in her brothel, where they lure Occidental...
Coach Hunt couldn't refrain from gloating. "We met the cream and we weren't intimidated. I'm just so pleased...
...Winship, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, chastised his colleagues because the campaign "ain't no box office hit, and the press deserves some of the blame. By and large, we are letting the candidates set the agenda." Winship repeated the familiar self-reproach that newspapers weren't raising significant issues. To which Paula Hawkins, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Florida, answers: "You never win an election on issues. The only people who want to be specific are editors and journalists. The people out there are tired of someone...