Word: bays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...woman but returns to her house one night, half-crazed, threatening the children and insisting that she marry him. Beverley, free of his domination and finally realizing her independence, resists his possessiveness. When Brown moves to assault her babies, she grabs a carving knife and keeps him at bay, but then she weakens, startled by her violence and softened by the smoldering memories of their love. She puts down the weapon and everything appears calm until Brown suddenly seizes her son, carries him to a window and threatens to drop the infant from the fifth-story apartment if she will...
...Michael S. Dukakis nominated Theodore C. Landsmark, assistant director of external projects at Harvard, to the board of directors of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Wednesday, making him the first black ever nominated to the board...
...Coos Bay: The Classroom Blahs...
...town of Coos Bay (pop. 14,132) is nestled in the rolling hills of southwest Oregon, 140 miles north of the California border. It bills itself as "one of the world's foremost lumbering centers and its dock area hums day and night with ships loading wood chips for Japan. Otherwise, it is a collection of modest houses, an attractive downtown shopping area and several motels?most of them strung along U.S. 101, the main street. Its nigh school, a Depression-era legacy of the Public Works Administration, sits prominently on a high hill. When the morning fog clears?...
...National Merit Scholarship competition, which singles out the brightest seniors in America. College-bound seniors can elect advanced placement courses, apply to take courses at the university or propose "study projects," in which they can tackle anything from music to horse training. Yet, as at Medford and Coos Bay, the easier route beguiles many. To graduate, students must complete 180 hours of graded coursework, including 45 hours in language arts (which must include nine terms of English), 15 hours in science and 30 in social studies. But only slightly more than half the coursework is prescribed, and full credit...