Word: defection
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...Hart, eleven (five whites, six blacks) for Jackson, ten for McGovern, the rest scattered among also-rans. votes A at a caucus candidate to must have his receive 15% support of re the corded m the statewide tabulation; backers of candidates who fall below the threshold remain can formally defect to another uncommitted. contender During he arm twisting at McKinstry Elementary, the lonesome Glenn and Cranston supporters were recruited by other groups One result was a Jackson-McGovern tie lor third place that was settled, according to official party rules, by a coin flip-heads, McGovern...
David's case was unprecedented: no other human being had lived so long without a functioning immune system, a defect that can turn even the common cold into a fatal disease. David (the family always insisted on anonymity) owed his survival to doctors who had anticipated the condition before his birth because an older brother had died of immunodeficiency. Inside a series of sterile "bubbles," David progressed from a baby in a crib to an A student who attended school by telephone; his food was sterilized and slipped in through air locks. Only briefly, in 1977, was he able...
...artillery attacks on Istalif, Herat and other cities, but without destroying the rebels' resiliency. Soon after the Soviet and Afghan government forces announced last August that they had "pacified" Kandahar, the Mujahedin took to the rooftops with loudspeakers and for hours taunted the government soldiers, urging them to defect to the rebel cause...
...bestartlement; they had no idea that weekend at the Plaza would put such a stimulating glow into their sunset years. It is the virtue of Sybille Pearson's book that the principals never become archetypes, thanks to her gift for tart dialogue and pleasant personification. It is the defect of her writing that things proceed a little too smoothly. Some second-act confusions and reversals might well have been in order...
...composer's request, Giuseppe Crisolini-Malatesta based the sets and costumes on paintings by Fra Angelico, Giotto and Matthias Grünewald. As staged by Sandro Sequi, scenes are played in small, diorama-like boxes to emphasize the work's distant, legendary quality. The only serious dramatic defect is the sixth scene, the sermon to the birds, which was intended to be the high point. What was supposed to be a grand laser spectacle representing the flight of the birds in the shape of a cross is instead something more suitable to a light show in a down...