Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lawrence's fascinating tale gives a brief but detailed glimpse of the fascist and socialist movements in Sydney in 1922, a piece of history generally lost to the world because neither movement succeeded in the revolutions they tried to bring to the land down under...
...author chides his subject for the "Poor Richard" pose he so often adopted toward his struggles. In fact, his meteoric rise was as much a product of good luck as of hard work. Nixon entered the House during a brief, aberrant period of Republican control, when choice committee assignments were being handed out to eager freshmen. His Red-scare tactics benefited immensely from the awful example of Senator Joseph McCarthy: "McCarthy's charges were so extreme, his inability to back them up so obvious, that he made Nixon look like a scholar and statesman in comparison." The outbreak...
...Brief visits, however, can work beneficially. Five years ago, Ellen Rancilio returned to the Detroit area to live with her father after her marriage broke up. She only stayed seven months, but "it made us much closer," she says. Indeed, the experience was so positive that she would not hesitate to put out the welcome mat when her own three sons are grown. Declares she: "If they needed help like...
With its decisive victory, the Crimson snapped its brief one-game losing streak and improved its overall record to 7-8 on the year (4-2 EITA...
There was a magic moment of communion between that woman behind the door and me; it lingered a moment, and then I passed on. My friend later offered to introduce me to Lansbury, but I knew it would never happen. The moment was gone. A brief spark struck between two kindred souls illuminated the night and was gone as quickly as it had come...