Word: corde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little fundraising."Christ," he said, "if you go on TV for a minutein prime time, it'll cost you your right arm."Instead of a high-tech media campaign, he said hewould campaign for Congress as he had for citycouncil: with a Winnebago camper, a microphone,and an extension cord, which he plans to take onthe campaign trail throughout the district.CrimsonPeter H. SchwartzJAMES ROOSEVELT JR. '68 makes a point asALBERT L. "DAPPER" O'NEIL looks on at a recentdebate of Eigth Congressional Districtcandidates...
There has been published speculation, based on unidentified sources, that the finger of flame either burned through the fuel tank wall and ignited its huge supply of liquid hydrogen, or that it set off the destruction mechanism by lighting a primer cord...
...namesake of her order, has gotten herself into a bit of trouble. She hides her pregnancy both from her fellow sisters and her own troubled psyche for the nine months. But when the child is born, either Agnes or someone else strangles the child with its own umbilical cord...
Xiao, who was taken to the hospital with injuries to his spinal cord and intestines, said he wanted to go to Taiwan. Earlier this year a Chinese torpedo boat and its crew, who had mutinied and tried to defect to South Korea, were sent home by the Seoul government. But this time South Korea has announced that only the navigator will be repatriated to China. Xiao will presumably be allowed to go to Taiwan...
...action ranges across North America, France and darkest Russia, none of it convincingly in focus. In New Hampshire, for instance, Author Hyde has the Soviet bad guys, who are driving a small runabout, stop off at a farm to pick up a cord of wood, a quantity that would founder anything short of a sizable truck. Soviet village scenes do not seem any more real. The book's most enduring enigma is why, having equipped his tale with the scaffolding of romance, Hyde keeps his reunited lovers separate for all but a few exceedingly decorous pages...