Word: callings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Easter recess. House Speaker Tip O'Neill is leading one group to Ireland; House Whip John Brademas is taking another to the Soviet Union. Members of the House Narcotics Committee are on their way to sunny Colombia. So many Congressmen are traveling to China that a quorum call might just succeed in Peking. The Easter recess, in fact, is turning out to be considerably more lively than the session, which so far has set a record unmatched in two decades for legislative inactivity. Critics have already dubbed the 96th the "do nothing" Congress, the same fighting words used...
...French Revolution, when hasty trials and execution by the guillotine were used as instruments of policy to help combat conspiracies from both within and without the country. Although tens of thousands died over a decade of turmoil and civil war, the actual Terror, as the historians have come to call it, lasted only from mid-1793 to mid-1794. The terrible year in which the revolution devoured its own leaders as well as its enemies began with the execution of King Louis XVI on a cold, misty morning in January...
Robinson held on to the tennis balls for several minutes in silent disagreement with the call before giving them back to Pompan. He knew he could only prevent Pompan from winning by refusing to let him finish the match...
...Firsch regained his concentration. He broke Krevolin's serve, took his own serve despite Krevolin's dubious "out" call on a serve that closely resembled an ace, and proceeded to whip off four more games...
What stands out more than their conversion, though, is the confusion that preceded it. Only in retrospect can he call it confusion. Whatever Matthiessen was doing at any given time made as much sense to him then and held as much meaning as Buddhism holds for him now. Buddhism works differently, but really is no different than anything else he has tried. He hasn't really changed...