Word: containing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...books contain Chinmoy's philosophy, poems, short stories, plays and lectures, said Kevin A. Keefe, program co-ordinator for the United Nations Meditation Group and a disciple of the Yogi...
...fled a New Jersey prison farm, where he was serving a sentence for a commodities scam. Officials say that Lloyd, Carr may have swindled investors out of as much as $75 million over the past 18 months. Investigators found that one escrow account in a Boston bank supposed to contain $3.6 million to safeguard clients' funds contained only $200. Massachusetts authorities believe the total siphoned off in their state alone could reach $12 million...
...taking sides publicly. Using a familiar technique, however, the Soviet press extensively quoted foreign reports favorable to Hanoi or damaging to Phnom-Penh -and by extension, to Peking. The Chinese, more restrained, declared only that they hoped the situation could be resolved by negotiation. Unhappy over their inability to contain Cambodian intransigence and intent on preserving their tenuous relationship with Hanoi, Chinese leaders evenhandedly publicized reports from both sides in the conflict...
...actual decision to escape from South Africa was made during a conversation in the family's secluded garden, the only place where Woods and his wife felt they could talk freely. Even there, they deliberately stayed away from the trees lest the branches contain hidden microphones. Already Woods had sought the advice of a few friends, some of whom were political activists like himself. One told him: "Go. You're the best one among us to talk to the [overseas] press." Woods had an additional reason for seeking exile; he was hard at work, in violation...
Heavy enough to induce hernia in the unconditioned. The Baseball Encyclopedia does not contain all there is to know about baseball. But it does hold more than enough to nourish the fan until opening day. It is the definitive reference book of baseball, the only tome that lists the year-by-year performance statistics for almost every man and child (Joe Nuxhall was only 16 when he pitched for Cincinnati) who ever played in the major leagues. The current (third) edition is now being sold out. There will not be another until 1980 -an aeon away to the true baseball...