Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marchais insisted on the letter of the united-left agreement: both parties would back the leftist who had led in the first round, whether he had any chance of winning the runoff or not. Explaining his stand, Marchais said that he would brook "no malodorous subterfuge, no bargaining in the wings, no doubtful schemes." Mitterrand? In a television address, he pointedly avoided using the word Communist at all and glumly predicted that "the battle of the second round will be difficult...
...bill under consideration would extend the present subway tunnel 800 feet from the Square to Story Street. The Red Line will eventually extend all the way to Alewife Brook Parkway...
Duty Bound. Glenn Brook (Ben Masters) returns from self-imposed exile to stand trial for draft evasion. In court, he requests amnesty on moral grounds. The television audience is asked to act as Brook's jury. CH. 4. 2 p.m. Color...
Last week the highly publicized orange soil produced some unexpected disappointment. Using "atomic clock" dating techniques. Dr. Oliver Schaeffer and his lunar-analysis team at the State University of New York at Stony Brook determined that the material was 3.71 billion years old, within the age range of other moon samples that have been brought back to earth. How could scientists have been so far off the mark in their first estimates? Conceding that it was all a "big surprise," Schaeffer theorized that the long-buried soil might have been dug up recently by a meteoroid impact, thus giving...
Lord Jim. A big budget, shot-on-location epic adaptation starring Peter O'Toole. Effective as an adventure story about a hard-to-figure guy, but the excitement of Richard Brook's film is not the excitement of Conrad's novel, and the intelligence of the novel is missing altogether...