Word: dame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...support to a coup by young, reform-minded Salvadoran army officers. When the revolt was crushed, Duarte was hauled from his sanctuary in a Venezuelan diplomatic residence, held incommunicado and brutally beaten. His cheekbones still bear indentations from that torture. Telegrams from Pope Paul VI, Richard Nixon and Notre Dame President Theodore Hesburgh brought about his release; Duarte spent the next seven years in exile in Venezuela...
...down the cinder blocks, ducking the clusters of electrical cable and skipping over the air hoses, as though the chaos and lateness did not exist or were, in themselves, some kind of artwork. But by the end of the week, the Museum of Modern Art, a refurbished dame, was more or less pulled together: slip awry, flushed under the powder, panting somewhat, but ready for the preopening openings, the dinners, the disputes and the final arrival of the general public...
When it came to squashing a grapefruit in some dame's face, no one could be more hard-boiled than Actor James Cagney. He is still pretty tough, but Cagney, 84, got misty-eyed in Washington last week, when he was one of 14 honored with the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award. The President got a little sentimental himself, saying, "As a great star at the same studio where I started [Warner Bros.], he was never too busy to hold out a hand to a young fellow just trying to get under...
...Notre Dame (19-11) advances to a quarter-final game against Pittsburgh Friday night...
Boston College (18-12) trailed 28-24 at halftime before jumping ahead 39-32. But Kempton and Sluby, who each finished with 20 points, scored six-points each in a 14-4 spurt that put Notre Dame in from 40-43 with 8:16 remaining...