Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...double chainlink, electrified fence topped with barbed wire; a hundred rifle-toting U.S. Marines; a few score heavily armed Israeli and Egyptian agents. This security barrier encircling Camp David last week effectively shut out a world intently curious and concerned about what was happening within the secluded presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland. There at the summit, Jimmy Carter, Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin were starting the latest and one of the most momentous rounds in the three-decade search for an Arab-Israeli peace. Said a somber Carter just before departing...
Fair Share will modify the emphasis of its campaign against Harvard by trying to attract more allies. This, they believe, is possible now that more individuals have become curious about the role of tax-exempt institutions since Proposition 13 and similar "tax revolts" began to stimulate a greater community interest in lowering taxes...
...singularly curious and inept of TIME to select Hans Küng to comment on the qualifications for the next Pope. Küng questions the fundamental bases of the papacy-its infallibility and primacy. Küng has been judged by such a competent theologian as Karl Rahner to be little different from a liberal Protestant in numerous of his opinions about the church. In fact, Küng has often sailed very close to objective heresy. Great choice indeed...
...explained his crimes in a curious but oddly touching fashion: "What do you expect from me? I never even had a single birthday cake...
...tradition, 342 years of it, give or take a few. Harvard's traditions grow like the ivy on its buildings -- somethimes so thick that they obscure what's underneath. When you get here you will no doubt be curious to wade about in some of this tradition that you are paying for, perhaps even make a little of your own, but where to go to find out what it's all shout...