Word: brink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...broken leg and ignores his complaints of discomfort. The leg develops gangrene and has to be amputated. The boy's parents sue the doctor. Another surgeon accidentally punctures a 40-year-old man's esophagus. An infection develops, and the patient hovers on the brink of death. The patient sues the surgeon...
Hevern is the first Harvard lineman to be named to the ECAC weekly team this year. Surprisingly, no Crimson defensive players were mentioned. Other Ivy players on the team were Yale quarterback Joe Massey, Brown fullback Gerry Hart and Dartmouth tackle Barry Brink...
...page message calling for the release from Quebec jails of 23 political prisoners. The Front demanded that the freed prisoners be flown in a Canadian plane either to Cuba or Algeria, and that a "voluntary tax" of $500,000 in gold bullion be delivered to the aircraft in nine Brink's armored trucks as ransom. Otherwise, the terrorists vowed, they "would not hesitate to get rid of" the Irish-born British official within 48 hours...
...descriptions merely skim the surface of Bob and Ray's comedy. They are superior cliché kidders and satirists of the first order; they record things almost exactly as they are heard and seen every day-and then they take that one subtle, savage, farcical step over the brink into the inane...
Only three months ago, Bernard Cornfeld's beleaguered I.O.S., Ltd., the biggest of the foreign mutual fund empires, teetered on the brink of collapse. Last week financial misfortune struck the second largest offshore investment complex, Gramco Management Ltd. and its USIF,* Real Estate. Swamped by the equivalent of a run on the bank, the directors of the Nassau-based USIF "temporarily" suspended sales and redemptions, thus freezing the assets of 23,000 European, Latin American and Asian investors who had put up $276 million. The closedown leaves the future of the fund in considerable doubt; to some degree...