Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while most students and faculty are quick to disavow terrorism, they also charge that the government is overreacting-particularly against students-in an atmosphere of hysteria. "Oh God!" cried one Berlin student after learning of the Schleyer kidnaping. "One step closer to a fascist state." When a lampoon appeared at Gottingen University with a "non-obit" for Schleyer, tastelessly referring to his limited options of a "shabby life" or a "shabby death," police staged a three-hour search of the student-government building, its printing offices and two apartments. They seized 33 copies of the pamphlet, and the university rector...
...every detail right, and the Bunyanesque extravert (the front license plate of his limousine on Inauguration Day proclaimed BERT; the rear one, LANCE), who cheerfully mangled facts in his haste to paint the big picture. But there were deep bonds between the two opposites. At 46, Lance was closer in age to the President, who is 52, than most of the young Georgians who made up the White House's inner circle. Like the Baptist President, Lance-a Methodist-took his religion seriously. Both were workaholics who thought nothing of being at their desks...
From Hollywood, a boom town with a village psychology, film producers have long been roaming the world searching for unusual locations that will jolt the jaded eyes of moviegoers. Having dispatched camera crews from Abidjan to Zempoaltepec, movie moguls are now discovering an inviting area closer to home: the U.S. Midwest. In the view of film executives, America's heartland is "virgin territory" on the screen, unknown even to many Americans-not to mention foreign movie buffs. It also offers the stark authenticity that many current movies demand: steel mills, gritty factory towns, ghettos black and ethnic, as well...
...ensuing two plays, the Brown offense, led by quarterback Mark Whipple and fullback Wally Shields, moved the ball 71 inches closer, only to have Shields stifled on fourth down by a wall of Bulldogs...
...Restic did not say how much better, so while the Lions, who have slowly edged closer to mediocrity during Campbell's brief tenure in Upper Manhattan, may be improved over last fall's 3-6 club, they shouldn't be improved enough to ruin the Crimson's first road opener since the Marshall Plan...