Word: deale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston Police Commissioner Joseph Jordan organized the Community Disorders Unit to deal with cases of crimes with racial motives. Roach said. Jordan said he also supported a recently passed bill that sets severe penalties for violations of civil rights...
...milder forms of the disease than Merrick's, physicians are now able to deal with much of the deformity of neurofibromatosis by surgery. Some of these operations are for purely cosmetic reasons. In one recent case, for example, plastic surgery was used to treat a girl of eleven who had a fold of fibrotic skin hanging from her genital area. Said Dr. P. Bela Fodor, who performed the operation at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan:"There's a good chance she will never have a recurrence and that she will go on to live a normal...
...company's decade-long slide and return it to solid profitability by 1981. Said lacocca after the Administration's announcement: "It's a vote of confidence we needed." Added Auto Workers Chief Douglas Fraser, who is joining Chrysler's board as part of a deal struck by his union to help the firm: "The Government is taking a very positive step, assuring the jobs of nearly half a million American workers...
Many Pritchett fictions deal with styles of preserving one's dignity. How does an aging botanist confront the energies of his lovely 25-year-old companion? Carefully, as the author illustrates in the title story of his latest collection: "There are rules for old men who are in love with young girls, all the stricter when the young girls are in love with them. It has to be played as a game." Love, of course, is never a game, especially in a December-May romance where the older party keeps one eye on the clock and the younger does...
...narrators of The Accompanist and The Fig Tree must deal with the doubts of the husbands they have cuckolded. In the first story, a pianist leaves a package of apple tarts at her lover's apartment. She arrives home dessertless for a dinner party to which her lover is invited. The husband clowns around, sings bawdy songs and regrets the missing tarts which, he is told, were left at a rehearsal studio. How much does he know? How much does he want to know? There are no answers, only a delicate tension created by Pritchett's great talent...