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...hostility doomed themselves to a life alone in the rooms of an island fortress off the coast of Sweden. They are a grim pair proceeding through their days with ritual bitterness; only the occasional Morse Code eruptions of the domestic telegraph set and the arrival of the Third Character divert the flow of venom from its daily course...

Author: By Whit Stillman, | Title: Marriage on the Rocks | 2/12/1972 | See Source »

...will replace the maples with 18-foot tall sycamore trees as soon as the project is completed. The sewage pipe will intercept mixed sewage and storm water now discharged into the Charles River and divert it to the MDC's Deer Island treatment plant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MDC to Axe Trees Today | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

...government, Medvedev is in difficulty. While asserting that Stalin's rise to power was not inevitable and that Stalinism was a "disease," he also knows that the disease raged for more than a quarter of a century and that Soviet society is still not healthy. That Stalin could divert the inevitable progress of history for so long and so catastrophically does not fit easily into even Medvedev's very refined Marxist framework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: History of a Disease | 1/17/1972 | See Source »

...into the Ohio May 2 primary every other serious Democratic contender. This would result in a run on the campaign chests of hard-pressed Democrats of perhaps as much as $500,000 per candidate, and a bloody splintering of the state Democratic organization into brawling fiefdoms. It would also divert some of Muskie's energies from the similarly critical primaries of Oregon and California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Gilligan's Dilemma | 12/27/1971 | See Source »

Norman Gray, a spokesman for the MDC, said yesterday that the function of the relief line would be to divert storm and sewer drainage from the Charles down to a new water treatment plant in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Relief Sewer Will Invade River Banks | 11/17/1971 | See Source »

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