Word: easterlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he could not pay his tuition by writing thrillers during summer, Christmas, and Easter vacations, Crichton realized he would have to write one during the school year...
...Last week Rockefeller Center's Marshall sadly admitted that the proud landmark now faces the same pathetic destiny that has over taken hundreds of other moviehouses, big and small, in recent years. By present plans it will shut down this week, reopen in March to offer its traditional Easter pageant, and then close for ever the following month. The reason, naturally, is money. The theater lost $2.2 million in 1977, and officials figure it would lose $3.5 million this year if it stayed open. The Music Hall needs to take in $176,000 a week just to cover operating...
...just possibly a sign of simple-mindedness or galloping hypocrisy as well. Yet there they are today, down on their knees at prayer meetings. They are pursuing the word day by day instead of settling for the sudden thrill of religion only on Sunday?or only at Christmas and Easter...
...exchanged views in Israel (their previous meetings had occurred on neutral ground such as Athens and Paris), and the first time that Wynn had set foot in the Jewish state. Says Wynn: "Before the 1967 war, when East Jerusalem was in Arab hands, I used to cover the Easter and Christmas festivities there every year. Visiting the area again was a real homecoming...
...original Pentecostal movement, which took its name from the 50th day after Easter, Pentecost Sunday, when the Holy Ghost descended to the twelve Apostles, was born in nearby Topeka...