Word: york
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bates suggests that COCA's intent in sending the draft cards was to "generate hysteria" over a "highly improbable U.S. war in the region." For the record, The New York Times reported yesterday that U.S. pilots were flying night-time bombing missions over San Salvador. In addition, the 55 United States military advisors in EI Salvador are presently engaging in combat, and U.S. warships have moved to EI Salvador's coast...
From the start of the second period, Providence began to take the initiative behind strong offensive play by Beagan and Cammi Granato, sister of New York Rangers' forward Tony Granato. At 2:14 into the period, Granato took a pass from Beagan on the left side of the goal and pushed the puck past Harvard goalie Gillian D'Souza for the first point of the game...
...presidential contest over, Kitty's interest in state affairs dwindled. Her stage by now was bigger. A New York publisher paid her a large advance to write a book about the campaign, another undertaking that troubled her wary husband. Soon she was questioning colleagues about the propriety of telling certain sensitive anecdotes. The demands of the book only added to Kitty's numerous pressures. Finally, she lost control...
...harsh circumstances. In The Literary Life of Laban Goldman, an elderly Jew attends night school to improve his English and get away from his nagging wife; he experiences a brief moment of triumph when the Brooklyn Eagle publishes his letter to the editor urging a relaxation of New York State divorce laws. The Grocery Store evokes the atmosphere in which the author, the son of a grocer, grew up in Brooklyn...
...fact that Americans are notoriously unreliable when answering questions related to race was dramatically evident in the Virginia and New York City elections. Although several surveys in the final fortnight gave Wilder and David Dinkins comfortable leads (as high as 15 points for Wilder and 18 points for Dinkins), both contests turned out to be squeakers...