Word: erful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...routine diplomacy has now become a kind of diplomatic marathon. By the end of this week, Secretary of State Wil liam Rogers - hoarse of voice and red of eye - will have spent eleven days in New York; in that time, he will have held bilateral discussions with no few er than 66 foreign ministers or their deputies, a heavier schedule than that of any other diplomat...
...like writer who magically appears each day after boning up on his copy of The Arabian Nights. They also talk of mutual prob lems with such tenderness and under standing that the question of who is muse and who is bemused becomes a beautiful irrelevance. For Barth, a writ er who must keep himself going with self-conscious irony and ambiguity and tricks, Scheherazade is a literary dream girl. She told stories only out of the most urgent necessity: to save her lovely neck...
...from Irving's talents as a fabricator, all else followed. Long before Hemingway, Mark Twain's Nigger Jim knew that the Hemingway hero is not to be defined in terms of yachts and blondes. "Trash," said Jim, "is what people is dat puts dirt on de head er dey fren's." Otto Friedrich
...Harvard...er...United States...oarsmen quickly announced in force that they had arrived. It was a power play the like of which had not been seen since Normandy. In the West-German Championships, run less than two weeks after Parker had decided his seating alignment for the Olympics, the Americans stunned the international rowing world by winning the regatta in a course record 5:48.58. The Americans soundly defeated the West German runners up by four seconds, while swamping world power New Zealand by two full lengths. The Americans had arrived and, in a little under six minutes actual racing...
...nowhere-partly because Bonner had no success trying to demonstrate the superiority of the aboriginal product. At a press showing in Canberra, he scaled a boomerang that got stuck in a tree; the embarrassed Senator had to shinny up to retrieve it. In other words, the demonstration-er- boomeranged...