Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London School of Economics, and Singapore's new Communist-leaning Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew is a Cambridge honors graduate, which Britons feel makes him easier to reason with. Currently, British universities have some 18,000 Commonwealth students. The old school tie is found in every corner of the Commonwealth. Says Canada's Ambassador to the U.N. Charles Ritchie: "We appreciate the same jokes and reminiscences...
...bureaucrats' interest: on the flight home, Kenya's most dynamic African leader had stopped off at Tunis to meet with other leaders of the All-African People's Conference, formed last year in Ghana, which brought together for the first time African leaders from every corner of the continent...
...there are times when even The Clan cannot keep Shirley going, when she withdraws into a corner to stare at the wall or struggle with sudden tears, The Clan accepts this, too. Her sudden shifts of mood and attention are as striking offscreen as on. The core of her life, she insists, is her family, her Japan-based husband Steve Parker and her two-year-old daughter Stephanie. Friends still remember with a kind of awed surprise the evening she brought Steffie to a party, stuck the child in a wicker basket and put her in a closet to sleep...
...night last week Leonard went out to get a newspaper at the corner, not bothering to call the cops. It was a mistake. He returned, found the garage light out, started to pull the garage door down, got slugged. He fell, was kicked as he lay on the ground. Leonard wound up in the hospital in serious condition. It looked very much as though Carbo, even under arrest, still had pals willing to do him a favor...
Work on Tish 'ah Be'ab. Abe brought his own kosher food to school every day and ate it in the student lounge, where he also said his midday prayers in a corner, surrounded by chattering fellow students. Hospital duty during the 24-hour fast without food and water at Tish 'ah Be'ab (commemorating the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 A.D.) Dr. Twerski describes as "murder,'' and the last six years have left him hollow-eyed and slightly sallow. But he is eagerly looking forward to the next stage: a year...