Word: abell
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Jeffrey Archer is a writer of beach books (Kane & Abel; First Among Equals) who was once the youngest member of the House of Commons, and is now deputy chairman of Britain's Conservative Party. As writerly credentials go, these are well up on the customary "shipped out on a tramp steamer" and "parachuted into occupied France...
...four other freshmen receiving probationuntil next year are H. Glen Abel, Paul T. Nakada,Eddy J. Rogers III, and Kevin W. Ryter...
...here, on Feb. 10, 1962, that the downed American U-2 pilot, Francis Gary Powers, walked past Soviet Superspy Rudolf Abel while heading west across the bridge. In June 1985, 25 Western agents were traded here for four East bloc spies imprisoned in the U.S. Ever since rumors began circulating early this month that Shcharansky might soon be included in such a prisoner exchange, it was assumed that the famed Soviet dissident would take the same route to the West. But there were endless snags. Among the most controversial: even though Shcharansky was convicted in the Soviet Union on trumped...
...joining Potsdam, East Germany, to ^ West Berlin has long been legendary as the "Bridge of Spies." Across it walked Francis Gary Powers, pilot of the ill-fated U-2 reconnaissance plane shot down over the Soviet Union, who was freed in 1962 in exchange for Soviet Master Spy Rudolf Abel. Last June the bridge was used to trade four Communist- bloc agents for 25 Europeans who had been imprisoned in the East for espionage. Usually such prisoners are traded in secret, often in the foggy predawn hours. Last week, however, the western end of the 128-meter Glienicker Bridge...
...direction, and all you do is bring on the empty horses. Restrain the impulse, and you may only bring forth empty images, beautiful and static. It is on the ground that lies between melodrama and abstraction that the most haunting figures in film history--Griffith, Eisenstein and Abel Gance among them--have both lost themselves and found themselves. It is this terrain Kurosawa confidently bestrides...