Word: eve
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene). At one point his malformed hand spastically grabs his cross and must be pried off with the other. While Hastings is being beheaded he gnaws on a chicken leg. After Tyrrel reports carrying out his killings as ordered, Richard puts on a brief weeping fit. And on the eve of battle he sits caressing his deformed leg with his deformed hand. Vocally, Watson does laudably on the whole, though he should not throw away such a crucial line as "I'm not in a giving vein today...
...model T of an airplane, the T-28 trainer. Rigged with rockets and 50-cal. ma chine guns, half a dozen of the U.S.-donated aircraft have proved to be le thal weapons against the ragged rebels who are undermining the shaky regime of Premier Cyrille Adoula on the eve of the U.N.'s departure June...
Latin America's troublesome students go out on strike at the pop of a firecracker: against the government, for Cuba, to oust professors, or anything else that catches their fancy. Last week, on the eve of final exams, the 18,725 students at Caracas' Central University were on strike for a brand-new reason: the right to flunk forever and still remain in school...
...summarize early theology. The tusks lend the cross an undulating vitality, repeated in the budding motif of the Garden of Eden's Tree of Life, then supposed to be the material of the original cross of Calvary. Taking these themes, the cross dramatically telescopes time, showing Adam and Eve, the primordial parents of man, at the base of the cross as they are at last raised from the dead by the Crucifixion. They seem to emerge from their eons-long sleep in a mood of joyous bewilderment as they clutch at the Tree of Life's roots, while...
...described by Havelock Ellis as "a gutter Rousseau." and has become something of a literary cult figure in France today. In Les Nuits de Paris, here translated into English for the first time, Restif created a unique record of the lower depths in all their gamy variety on the eve and in the first years of the French Revolution...