Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idealistic human being. Personally, I owed him an immense debt of gratitude. During World War II, when the German air raids started in France, I sent my wife and daughter to the United States. Two weeks later, Paris fell and, with a million other Parisians, I was in my car on the roads of southern France. Eventually, I reached Marseilles and saw the American consul there. He informed me that I could not go to America since the Latvian quota (eighteen people per year) was filled for the next seven years. My sister and my wife visited Professor Einstein...
...thought it was tough to get into Harvard, wait till you're 45 and are trying to get a job with the government. The competition for jobs in the Carter administration is intense these days, and it won't let up until the last deputy assistant secretary for subway car development has been named in a high-noon press conference at the Department of Transportation...
...Protestant and Catholic women's peace movement in Northern Ireland began this fall in the wake of the tragic death of three children hit by an IRA member-driven car being chased through Belfast streets by British army vehicles. Hume says the movement is a "completely spontaneous outcry for peace" which may lead to an atmosphere in which political negotiations can resume. Hume believes as much as 95 per cent of the Ulster population now abhor the violence of the extremists...
Soapy Roles. There are also little pockets of drama in the stands: Will Car Salesman David Janssen stop treating Mistress Gena Rowlands mean and marry her? Will Gambler Jack Klugman, way in the hole and threatened with immediate extinction unless his debts are settled, beat the point spread? Most of all, will Good Cop Charlton Heston and Stadium Manager Martin Balsam be able to neutralize the sniper without having to turn to the dire methods of Tough Cop John Cassavetes and his blood-hungry SWAT team...
...until I get things orderly," Spacek confesses, and this kind of dedicated fuss-budgetry gives her a strong center of gravity whenever celebrity threatens to throw her off balance. Says she: "The main thing is I don't want to lose myself. If I get hit by a car, I want to go out knowing I returned my neighbor's cake...