Word: woods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Things get better, though, as we retreat from the blond wood facade of Ann Taylor and stumble on the Haymarket, where fresh fruits and vegetables are sold each Friday and Saturday as part of an open-air Boston tradition dating back to the city's founding. We ogle the eggplants and almost buy sizzling Italian sausage, but restrain ourselves. We reach into the bag of candycorn, resigned...
...Americans posted a 4-1 record in the Olympic tournament, losing only to Canada after they had already made it into the medal round. Throughout the Seoul competition, the U.S. had been spurred on by the pitching of Abbott and Ben McDonald and the hot bats of outfielder Ted Wood and first baseman Tino ; Martinez. A Seattle Mariners draft choice, Martinez sealed the final victory with two home runs and four RBIs. Introduced to the Games as a demonstration sport in 1904 and reintroduced in 1984, baseball will at long last become a full-fledged Olympic event in Barcelona...
...records had mysteriously melted. That same evening, a couple discovered that the Elvis statue in their den had inexplicably broken apart. Years later, a police officer tracked his missing son to Los Angeles through information supplied in a dream by Elvis. The singer's face suddenly materialized in the wood paneling of a woman's pantry door. His voice counseled an overweight woman to lay off junk food. The late star, a frequent hospital visitor, has offered words of comfort to a woman giving birth, to another in a near death experience, and to a young girl dying of complications...
...Princeton kiosk will serve as a guard tower at the new traffic entrance into the campus. The kiosk, which will accommodate a single security guard, is being built primarily in wood in "the style of an 18th-century cupola," according to Jon Hlafter, director of physical planning at Princeton. With a price tag of $50,000, the booth will cost about $1000 per square foot, Hlafter estimates...
Doug Flutie had risen from the grave, which in this case took the form of a slab of wood beside the football field. He had conquered...