Word: attending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...patient was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the date was March 27, 1944-four months before the President was to be nominated for his fourth term, eleven months before he was to attend the crucial Big Three conference at Yalta, 13 months before he was to die in Warm Springs, Ga., of the massive stroke that, based on the medical evidence, seemed all too likely...
Widespread arrests of Selassie's former aides have left the Emperor friendless as well as powerless. His official function reduced to ritual approval of the military's reforms, Ethiopia's "King of Kings" has little to do but attend daily services of the Coptic Church, visit his aging pride of lions in cages on the palace grounds, and walk his pet Chihuahua...
...into an occupied dwelling and carrying a concealed weapon. But Judge Alfonso Sepe had other ideas. No one had been hurt in the shooting, and the youth had no criminal record. So, after consulting the victims, Sepe decided on probation rather than prison-provided that the young man would attend Saturday morning breakfasts in a predominantly black church and also do volunteer work for a black charity. "You're going to find out," said Sepe, "what it's like to live in a black community...
...classes at Harvard as the time groups here made their most crude and direct approaches to you. You are the niave prey, they are the vultures swooping in on you trying to sell you yearbooks, linens, Workers' Power, rings and Confi Guides. Since you made that fateful decision to attend Harvard instead of Stanford, Yale or Morgan St., you no doubt have been deluged with information and solicitations from every group remotely connected with Harvard...
...mast, and the captain reads Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" (the 107th Psalm is optional), while a black-draped crew member sprinkles the loved one's remains into the Pacific from a ceramic Grecian urn. For an additional $250, as many as 20 relatives and friends can attend the scattering from the deck of Neptune's bar-and-galley-equipped yacht K'thanga. Telophase eschews even such limited funeral frippery. It charters a boat, makes no provision for guests, stores ashes in boxes and scatters 50 to 60 people per voyage...