Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shot his colleague, and the one currently played by Michael Caine in Dressed to Kill, who sports a blond wig and goes after patients with razors. But such methods are unorthodox. The image most people carry of psychiatrists is that of Lee J. Cobb in The Three Faces of Eve -gentle, calm, kind, the sort of person you would entrust with your mother. You remember your mother...
Last weekend, on the eve of the eighth anniversary of martial law, Marcos appeared on national television in the Philippines and accused Aquino of colluding with the U.S. to undermine his regime and of sponsoring the wave of urban terrorism which has stricken the country and threatens to topple the dictatorship. The next day, however, Marcos made a public offer asking Aquino to return home and accept a "high government post," in the hope of restoring order to a nation in disarray...
Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote how, on the eve of the French Revolution, the monarchy seemed inexpugnable even to those men who were about to destroy it. His words still apply today. With all his monarchical attributes, Giscard stands to be the first of the Fifth Republic's presidents to complete a full first term and launch a second. Long live the king...
...holding the plebiscite, Pinochet may have been trying to improve his reputation abroad. If so, the attempt received an embarrasing riposte on the eve of the vote: Amnesty International released a detailed report that cited a dramatic increase in arbitrary arrests and systematic torture in Chile over the past two months. According to the report, Chilean secret police have rounded up between 1,000 and 2,000 people since July 15. Most were beaten and tortured; many have not been heard from since their arrests...
Wheaton's rules are more troublesome in recruiting faculty. Beyond personal behavior, Wheaton teachers must sign a 1926 credo including the belief that the Bible is "verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writing " A clause insisting on Creationism and a literal Adam and Eve was added in the 1960s. Says Biology Chairman A.J. Smith: "We study Darwin's theory, but that doesn't mean we advocate it." President Hudson T. Armerding notes that the rules and pledges sometimes make it hard to hire sociology teachers...