Word: brinks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...free! Young, tottering on the dizzying brink...
...being spoofed?which is one reason why Nabokov is difficult. "He is not the kind of novelist," says Anthony Burgess, "whom you sit down to with a Scotch or an apple." In a rare moment of explicit self-exposure, Nabokov once explained: "While I keep everything on the very brink of parody, there must be on the other hand an abyss of seriousness, and I must make my way along this narrow ridge between my own truth and the caricature...
Sophomores Fred Barton and Bruce Price downed Greist and Barry Brink at third doubles, 12-8, and sophomores Rick Rosenthal and Bill Brock played gritty tennis at number two before dropping a 12-9 decision to Burwell and Justin Stanley, the Green's regular second doubles unit...
...school with extracurricular instructions for making Molotov cocktails. More than 1,000 British soldiers moved into position throughout Ulster to protect reservoirs, telephone exchanges and power stations. Moderate Prime Minister Captain Terence O'Neill's days in office seemed numbered as extremism mounted. "We are on the brink of bloodshed," former Deputy Prime Minister Brian Faulkner warned. "Perhaps this is our last chance to halt on the brink, before anyone is killed...
...private sources. But he was cautious in appraising its usefulness. "We have demonstrated that a mechanical device will support the body," he declared after Karp's death. "But we've got to get more experience. It can only be used in a person who is at the brink of death or in a person who has already died, as, in effect, Mr. Karp had. He was completely dependent on the mechanical heart-lung, so that if it had been disconnected he would have been dead. That was the only justification for doing something as radical as this...