Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freshperson in Hollis Hall is injured after putting his arm through a window. A Harvard cruiser responds and transports...
...surviving players Halberstam sought out, only Joe DiMaggio turned him down (not even mutual friend Edward Bennett Williams could twist his arm). Yet Halberstam's portrait of DiMaggio is the finest part of the book. The author has a tender, intuitive sympathy for the proud, remote athlete. DiMaggio does not need a writer to confirm his stature, but still he is lucky to have such a thoughtful, intelligent chronicler. Boston had its own superstar in Ted Williams, and that brings up the inevitable comparison between Halberstam's work and John Updike's classic account of Williams' last game, "Hub Fans...
...once a quintessential mainline activity, but today evangelical agencies sponsor four-fifths of American Protestant missionaries. Mainline strategists play down proselytism and insist that foreign countries should recruit their own workers. Similar woes affect the N.C.C.'s most successful agency, Church World Service, the overseas relief and development arm. Its expenditures have fallen substantially, and are now exceeded several times over by those of World Vision, the leading evangelical agency...
...clear from reports by both sides that no agreement had been reached on Cambodia, where the Soviets support a decade-old Vietnamese occupation and the Chinese arm rebels...
...Palestinian radicals. "We shall show Arafat and the world that the P.L.O. charter remains very much alive," said George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. In the past two weeks gunmen in Lebanon assassinated Bassam Hourani, a commander of Arafat's Force 17 security arm, and launched attacks on two other Arafat aides...