Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A flood of Christmas cards, a challenge to Khomeini, an exit for the Shah
gymnasium to watch Dominique do his stuff. Naturally, North Carolina State, a perennial basketball power, was interested. Concedes its athletic director, Willis Casey: "We wanted him in the worst way." David Thompson, a former N.C. State forward who is now one of the highest paid players in the National Basketball...
On a crisp evening last week, Amy Carter stepped up to a podium on the Ellipse, just south of the White House, and pressed the button controlling the lights on a 30-ft. blue spruce and 50 smaller trees around it, one for each state. But for the first time...
In a similar outpouring of sympathy across the U.S., hundreds of thousands of Americans sent Christmas cards to a strange address:
It is the address of the U.S. embassy, which has been in the hands of fanatical followers of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini ever since Nov. 4. No one knows for sure where the idea of sending Christmas messages to the hostages originated, but it caught on with amazing speed. On...