Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Exam questions included, "For instructional purposes, the hand salute is a (one, two, or three) count movement?" and "The Harvard university campus library's two basic bibliographical tools...
...burial sites by Elmer Wayne Henley, 17, and David Owen Brooks, 18, police last week recovered the bodies of four more teen-age boys from shallow graves. That brought to 27 the body count in Houston's homosexual-torture murders (TIME, Aug. 20), establishing a grisly new record* for a series of mass killings...
...West. More than 3,000,000 had deserted East Germany from the end of World War II until Ulbricht ordered the Wall built. Now there is an elaborate network of installations along the entire 100-mile demarcation line that separates West Berlin from East Germany. At last count, it included 242 watchtowers, 137 bunkers, 249 dog patrols, some 65 miles of concrete wall and 35 miles of chain-link fencing, as well as assorted electronic-surveillance devices, lO-ft.-deep trenches and triple-pronged concrete pylons similar to the tank traps of World...
None of the above, says Weiskopf. How, then, has he done it? Let him count the ways: "Basically and simply, I have matured. I have set higher goals. I have worked harder. I am more determined to be a complete and better golfer. I am more sure of myself. I am more relaxed. I don't let adversity get the best of me." Personal grief played a part. "My father lived for golf," he says. "When he died last March, I realized that I hadn't accomplished what I should have for him. In watching him fight death...
...course, divorce was severely frowned upon by Victorian society, and any partner to adultery could count on permanent ostracization. Such is the situation of Margaret Erlynne in Lady Windermere's Fan, the first successful play written by Oscar Wilde. After just a few months of married life, she left her husband and baby daughter in favor of another man. Once he abandoned her, she was left alone in the world--a pariah from the social circles she had once frequented. Twenty years later she reads that her daughter has married a rich peer, Lord Windermere. Adopting the pseudonym 'Erlynne...