Word: endedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE IS desperation in this compact novel, and madness too. Tom McGuane is 38 years old now--Panama lunges and spouts like Hero's engine and reads as if the author does not intend to see 40. Chester (Chet) Hunnicut Pomeroy is the scion of an old Key West shipbuilding...
The game was played evenly throughout the first half, which ended with Washington ahead 10-7. Washington's Billy Kilmer matched Jones first half touchdown pass with a 31-yard toss of his own.
Washington's back-up quarterback Joe Theisman engineered a comeback drive that ended in a John Riggins touchdown that gave the Redskins a 17-14 lead. That was not enough, as Jones and Carr combined for their second six points to give Baltimore the victory.
A specialist in Islamic philosophy and law, Khomeini lives the typically ascetic life of a mullah and hardly looks like a political leader who could galvanize a nation. Yet no less a personage than Ardeshir Zahedi, Iranian Ambassador to the U.S., tried to pay a call on Khomeini in France...
For starters, Silberman points out that crime is "as American as Jesse James." Abraham Lincoln called internal violence America's biggest problem well over a century ago; Herbert Hoover anticipated Richard Nixon's law-and-order campaign by four decades; an 1872 guidebook to New York City warned tourists to...