Word: angels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed absolutely inane. Things were going on, things being done, and I was reluctant to leave where I felt the action was. [Also-and this is the most difficult admission for me to make-I had always been a deeply religious person and attended church. I have a guardian angel theory, and I had felt during the program, and still genuinely feel, that the guardian angel had a purpose for me in being there. Bert (her FBI contact) is a devout Roman Catholic, as is Catherine Hearst and to a lesser extent Randy Hearst. I was a devout Episcopalian...
...futile. The cause of the furor was the determination of General Francisco Franco's regime to carry out the death sentence that had been ordered in the cases of five terrorists, each of whom had been convicted of killing a policeman. Two of the condemned men, Angel Otaegui Echevarria, 33, and Juan Paredes Manot, 21, were members of a Basque separatist organization; the other three, Ramón Garcia Sanz, 27, José Humberto Baena Alonso, 23, and José Luis Sánchez-Bravo Solla, 21, were members of a small, recently formed Marxist urban-guerrilla outfit called...
...smart Chandler lines have been retained, but Richards and Goodman have added some others ("It's Snow White." "With or without the dwarfs?"), presumably of their own invention. Up against the real thing, these emendations stand out, as Chandler once wrote, "like a tarantula on a slice of angel food...
Most of her friends were Americans. In 1903 Edith had begun her famous friendship with another expatriate, Henry James. He was alternately fascinated and appalled by her wealth and her seemingly inexhaustible and sometimes manic energy, which led him to call her "the Angel of Devastation...
...players or trading for established veterans. "No team is ever set," he says, "even a winner." Of the 26 players on the winning team in the 1972 World Series, only nine are still in Oakland uniform: Jackson, Rudi, Tenace, Bando, Campaneris, Blue, Fingers, Southpaw Ken Holtzman and Reserve Outfielder Angel Mangual...