Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many ways, the statistics are misleading. Says California's Democratic Senator Alan Cranston: "The gross indicators show they're doing well, but when you look closer at the educationally disadvantaged, the young, minorities and the disabled, you see some serious problems." These problems are masked because the figures lump together all 8.8 million veterans of the Viet Nam era, and fewer than one-third of them actually went to Viet Nam. Those who did tended to be the blacks, the poor and the less educated. One million of them have not been able to find jobs that keep...
...next day, a woman waiting for a bus spotted what she thought was a bundle of rags lying on the grass in the large open park known locally as "the moor." Not far away was a single brown stack-heeled shoe. Coming closer, the woman discovered Josephine's body; she had died only 300 yards away from her parents' front door. The bruised, bloodstained corpse bore distinctive wounds, convincing police that a sadistic killer known as the "Yorkshire Ripper" had claimed another victim. Declared George Oldfield, assistant chief constable of the West Yorkshire police: "Clearly, we have...
...republic of anxiety, seedbed of desire. From Edvard Munch's top-hatted masks parading the streets of Oslo to Francis Bacon's pinstriped executives howling like caged baboons, the City secreted images of alienation. To the eye of modernist poetry it got more spectral as one came closer to it, as the capitals of Christendom did for T.S. Eliot in The Waste Land, almost 60 years...
Sophomore Libby Pierpoint, who teamed with senior Sally Roberts at second doubles, said the match was much closer than the final score indicated. "We came to this match psyched, especially since we lost (to Yale) 9-0 last year. The closer matches are indicative of our immense improvement over the past year...
...just be possible. With each gusty victory, Harvard's hustling men's lacrosse team moves coach Bob Scalise just a little closer to his until now elusive dream--a spot among the top eight in the national rankings and the accompanying berth in the NCAA playoffs...