Word: 27th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem of terrorism, as one result of the letters, dominated the opening session of the 27th United Nations General Assembly last week. Security was so tight at the U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters that delegates from the 132 member nations had to flash passes with photographs to enter the assembly hall. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim introduced a resolution calling for a halt in "terrorism and other forms of violence which endanger or take innocent human lives." Considerably qualified and softened to placate Arab na tions, the resolution was shunted to the General Assembly's legal committee for further study...
...room of the Reykjavik Sports Hall, gasped, and declared, "Bobby's blundered! He's dead lost!" Sure enough, Spassky forced an exchange of pieces that left Fischer a pawn behind and in dire straits. Then, just as shockingly, Boris committed a far more obvious blunder on his 27th move. "They've gone to pieces! It's like they're playing on brennevin!" exclaimed one grand master, referring to the potent Icelandic drink that the locals fondly call "Black Death." Fischer's second, the Rev. William J. Lombardy, a Catholic priest and a grand master...
Such is only the shell of this wonderful, disarmingly fluty novel, which is Margery Sharp's 27th book. Antoinette's foster mother, who tells the story, speaks what at first seems a dithering Dame Margaret Rutherford prose: "As Sir David and I had agreed, summer was wearing on, and after summer one must expect autumn." Yet she possesses a ruthlessly unsentimental, almost primeval attachment to the retarded child, whose still, strange presence dominates her life - until the mother returns with blithe hopes and confident of "cur ing" the innocent by psychotherapy...
...languished in Congress, debated seriously only rarely. But last week, with a disparate array of midwives in attendance, the Equal Rights Amendment passed the Senate, 84 to 8, and was sent to the states for ratification. If approved by three-quarters of the states, it will become the 27th Amendment to the Constitution...
...diving competition freshman Nancy Sato finished 27th in a field of 60. Sato's effort, in her first year of competitive diving, was a significant achievment. Her lack of experience prevented Sato from placing higher...