Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although the Tigers seemed to come alive for a brief time in the fourth quarter, neither team threatened seriously again, as Crimson Yardlings racked up their third straight victory...
...visitor to his retreat in the south of France reported that at the last the old man bitterly regretted ever having written it, confessing that he did it chiefly because he needed the money. But even before he finished the last chapter, he was suffering from brief spasms of self-knowledge. "Every idiot who has ever met me," he wrote, "talks of my extraordinary conceit. Perhaps, since my revelation of Shakespeare, I have taken myself too seriously...
Last week, for "extreme daring and heroism," Donna Waugh received the nation's highest lifesaving award-the Treasury Department's gold medal-at a brief ceremony in New York. Said she quietly: "There's no doubt that I would do the same thing if it occurred again...
...people inhabit Bolivia; 75% are on the altiplano (high plain), a vast, barren Andean plateau averaging 12,000 ft. in altitude. Of the 75%, a few tin miners produce the nation's major export; the rest, mostly Quechua and Aymara Indians who cannot even speak Spanish, spend brief lives struggling to scratch a living from the stony soil...
...evening of contemporary theatre in the little Hotel Bostonian Playhouse can be doubly sour if the acid of The Bald Soprano dissolves the sugar of The Dock Brief. Or it can be doubly rewarding. But there is no easy metaphor to explain how, so you will have to see it yourself...