Word: arc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Divinity School administrators recently cancelled plans to host a conference that would detail ties between Israel and South Africa. Organizer Nancy U. Murray said the purpose of the conference--dubbed "Apartheid's Arc and the Palestinian Uprising: Making the Connections"--was "to give information" on an issue "kept from view...
...Africa, it whirled across the Atlantic, gathering strength from the moist tropical air, puffing itself up into a fearsome 150-m.p.h. hurricane. At week's end Hurricane Hugo, its fury spent, whimpered out in rainfall over southern Canada. Between its gentle birth and welcome demise, Hugo carved an awesome arc of destruction in a 2,300-mile sweep from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe to the Carolinas...
POLAR STAR by Martin Cruz Smith (Random House; $19.95). Smith sets Moscow investigator Arkady Renko (Gorky Park) off on another bizarre case, this one on a fishing boat on the Bering Sea; one dead body leads to others along an arc of increasing menace and violence...
...words reflected the measured optimism expressed by all speakers at the huge rectangular table at the International Conference Hall, a block from the Arc de Triomphe...
...Martin Cruz Smith (Random House; $19.95). In a sequel to his best-selling detective novel Gorky Park, Smith sets Moscow investigator Arkady Renko off on another bizarre case. The setting this time is a fishing boat on the Bering Sea; one dead body leads to others along an arc of increasing menace and violence...