Word: ens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...imagines an Englishwoman, Susan Barton, marooned on the same island with the lonely men. For almost three decades, according to the original version, the Yorkshireman lived womanless, out of reach of the English language. In Coetzee's tale, the estrous Susan is in search of an abducted daughter. En route, she becomes the mistress of a ship's captain. Mutineers seize command and set her adrift in a small boat. It grinds ashore on the celebrated island, and within hours she is in the company of the white man and his mutilated servant, made tongueless by some cruel and nameless...
University workers yesterday foiled the plan by entering the building through a system of underground tunnels, but afterwards students confronted the university regents en route to a regularly scheduled meeting and coerced them into holding an impromptu open forum...
...rich wife." Hamnett's Buddhism keeps her on course ("I'm not into chanting, though I will occasionally when I want a parking space, which is naughty"), and her own vitality keeps her on the move. "Been there, seen that, done that" is the way she reviews old notions en route to fresh inspiration. The "most copied designer working today" is not about to go into details of her new women's clothes, which were to be shown during the London collections on March 14, but she does say, "The feeling in the collection is old jewelry, the real thing...
Since his first days at Harvard when he was just one of a 1000 scared freshmen, Jewett has risen from student to dean of the College, holding the positions of proctor, senior adviser, assistant dean of freshmen, director of freshmen scholarships and dean of admissions en route...
...objections, he gave intelligence information to the Iranians. He claimed that he had threatened the President of Costa Rica with the cutoff of U.S. aid if the President disclosed the existence of a covert airstrip. At one point, he even proposed sinking or hijacking a freighter en route to Nicaragua and stealing the weapons on board for the contras...