Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It was nine o'clock in the evening and the senator had a cafe con leche with a roll in his favorite cafe. At that moment two men entered, took out some enormous pistols and shot at the senator. Innocent or guilty, what is certain is that the senator was...
Nevertheless, the American departure last April was only the beginning of an enormous job for South Vietnam's Provisional Revolutionary Government. Aside from the million orphans and 181,000 physically disabled Vietnamese we left in our wake, the PRG had to cope with total social and economic chaos. Before the...
After a series of unsuccessful efforts to clean up the machinery of government--Defense Department and NASA contracting, conflict of interest problems, questionable land deals, tax evasion--Mollenhoff resigned in May, 1970, frustrated by his lack of clout and effectiveness. "I had never realized before," he reflected in the interview...
His Penitent Magdalene, circa 1640, with her pert mouth and enormous dark eyes, is in effect a maja. But the high point of Ribera's career is the great Calvary from Osuna, never displayed before outside Spain (see color opposite).
Such developments suggest a disproportionate influence by news gatherers on public opinion. Critics have been examining this issue for more than a century. Typically it has not been the affirmative character of the media that has attracted most attention, but their critical functions, the standing challenge they present to constituted...