Word: attending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letter-bomb campaign was hardly the most auspicious omen for a visit by Prime Minister Heath to Belfast last week-his first since Ulster's provincial elections in June. Heath had billed his two-day visit-its ostensible purpose was to attend a memorial service for former Prime Minister of Ulster Lord Brookeborough-as a "stocktaking" trip, to find out why Ulster has not made more progress in figuring out a way to govern itself. In reality, it was probably closer to tail-kicking. The Prime Minister has carefully avoided making any threats that the British might withdraw their...
...shuffled somebody else out of circulation, and this time the move delighted his left wing. Perón told the ubiquitous López Rega, who also triples as Argentina's new Social Welfare Minister, to take a month's vacation from domestic politics and attend a nonaligned nations conference in Algeria. Temporarily at least Lopecito had been effectively removed from what the leftists derisively call Perón's "celestial court." The remaining members: Isabelita and Finance Minister José Gelbard. Of the courtiers, only Gelbard has spent more than a few weeks in Argentina since...
Born into a middle-class Jewish family in the German town of Fürth, Kissinger grew up as the Nazis were coming to power, and so found himself an outcast. Heinz, as he was then called, was denied admission to high school, forced to attend an all-Jewish school, and often beaten up by gangs of pro-Nazi toughs...
...FIRST or possibly my second week at Harvard, a proctor on the floor beneath mine gave a party, which I did not attend. An assistant dean came to the party one of my roommates told me afterwards, to answer freshmanly questions and try to explain the Harvard experience. By one or two o'clock after he had had a lot to drink the assistant dean was ready to really explain the Harvard experience. "You are the best," he explained slurredly. "Never forget that you are the best. You should be proud that you are the best. Pass me another beer...
...asked had read any of I.A. Richards's books, and none of them knew much about his theories. They all assured me, however, that he was a very famous literary critic whom it would be an honor and a pleasure to see--a few of them were planning to attend themselves--so I compromised by not going to the Dinner, which was oversubscribed anyway, but going to the reception afterwards instead...