Word: closedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A woman behind me screamed. I turned around as she fell to her knees clutching her face. I pulled her up, urging, "Run, you've got to run." Twenty feet away a medic met us and pushed her down. I yanked her head back and forced open her eyes so...
Or to keep the library open very much. The Central Building is now closed altogether on Thursdays, and the research libraries operate only 49 hours a week, sharply down from the 1970 figure of 78 hours. The problem is that the library, despite its name, is "public" in only one...
This argument had already been sharply rejected by Gromyko. Addressing the U.N. General Assembly in Manhattan, he bluntly told the U.S., "Our advice on this score is simple: it is high time you admit this whole matter is artificial and proclaim it to be closed."
On Nov. 21, 1970, American commandos raided an installation 20 miles from Hanoi-the Son Tay prison-thought to house 60 American prisoners of war. The raid was heroically executed but was based on an egregious failure of intelligence: the prison had been closed at least three months earlier.
In his time, Orson Welles has played everything from Kane to king. Now he is a country sheriff in Never Trust an Honest Thief, shooting in Las Vegas. Welles, who complains of the state of his personal exchequer, says he was attracted to the role partly because "the villains are...