Word: connections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ability to love, and in her struggle to be independent abandoned her child to a boorish husband. Perhaps Lessing has mellowed now: perhaps Emily and the narrator are closer to Margaret, the earth mother figure of E.M. Forster's Howard's End, and, like her, can end with "Only connect...
...building, begun the day after Commencement two years ago, will connect Lamont, Widener and Houghton libraries when opened to students in January. The official opening will occur either in late Spring or early Fall...
...base hits, and the Angel catcher stuffs a half-inch-thick pad of foam rubber into his glove. The reason: Ryan throws so hard he rewrites the basic customs of the game. Batters inch back because they are scared, managers yank top hitters because they can't connect on high fastballs, Ryan's own outfielders are lulled to sleep by the preponderance of infield outs his pitches produce, and his catcher will do anything to keep his hand from turning to raw meat...
...huge canal would connect the Pechora River-which flows north into the Barents Sea region of the Arctic Ocean-with the southward-flowing Kama River, a tributary of the mighty Volga (see map page 82). Once the link is made and the necessary dams constructed, part of the Pechora's water will be diverted downhill into the Kama and thence into the Volga, which is the Caspian's major source of new water. The increased flow should stabilize the level of the inland sea. At a recent meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, the Soviets...
...somewhere along the line a gear slipped, or something failed to connect. This year some of the people who run the Model United Nations are in trouble because in the course of running the conferences some distinctions, subtle but important ones, somehow became blurred for them, and although they were very busy and under a great deal of pressure, they did some things they shouldn't have done. The small-town kids running a big-time show spent more than $5000 in four days in December, during the high school Model U.N., on expenses for their Harvard undergraduate staff...