Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Berg, a charming, literate and steadfastly unemployed semi- celebrity, parlayed his baseball and espionage experiences into 25 years of free room and board. Until his death in 1972 at the age of 70, he lived at his sister's house in Newark, New Jersey. From there he played the circuit of hospitable friends. His routine was to call up to say he happened to be in town and then wait for the inevitable invitation...
...last-minute wrench into Shannon Faulkner's plan to become the Citadel military college's first woman cadet. Faulkner was set to enroll Monday after winning a sex-discrimination suit that had bounced up to the Supreme Court. But this afternoon a three-judge panel of the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the school a delay until December, when the case goes back to the drawing board. Till then, Faulkner is stuck in the Citadel's day-student program. The silver lining: no court-ordered buzz cut for Faulkner, at least not this semester...
...Britton, 69, was a man of modest means. When he replaced the murdered Dr. David Gunn as a circuit-riding doctor for several abortion clinics in northern Florida, he realized he needed a vest. But instead of buying, he wore one constructed of manufacturer's scraps. Sometimes he worried that it was too short. "If they get me in the liver, that's pretty tough to patch," he told a reporter last February. Apparently he assumed that his assailant, aiming from a prudent distance in hopes of a clean getaway, would go for the largest target, the torso...
Last week Judge Raymond Cashen of the Macomb County Circuit Court finalized his ruling, declaring that Maranda would be better off living with her 20- year-old father. Cashen indicated that day care was the deciding factor against the mother. "A child gains the feeling of security, a safe place by virtue of permanence," said Cashen, who expressed skepticism about the long- term impact of "strangers" on a child's emotional well-being. Smith, a part-time maintenance worker at a local park, lives with his parents and intends to have his mother, a full-time homemaker, look after...
...even President Clinton's closed-circuit address to our conference commanded the attention of the entire group. Clinton's one remark which drew substantial attention, according to the convention publication, was referring to all those in attendance as "non-white...