Word: eves
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...later. Nonetheless, the story caused an uproar in Britain, where euthanasia is illegal. Kenneth Rose, George V's official biographer, accused Dawson of "murdering" the King, who was the grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II. A spokesman for Buckingham Palace, which learned of the mercy killing from Watson on the eve of the publication of the notes, said only, "The events happened a long time ago, and all the main participants are dead...
Last February, Ramos joined with Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile to throw the weight of the armed forces behind Presidential Candidate Aquino; that dramatic endorsement helped topple former President Ferdinand Marcos. As coup rumors swirled on the eve of President Aquino's trip to Japan last month, Ramos curtailed restive officers by warning them that any rebellious action would be "bloody and destabilizing." Early last week he acted again, this time averting an apparent coup attempt by preventing Enrile and rebel officers from bypassing the chain of command. By birth and training, Ramos, 58, is a Manila insider...
...eve of Tyson's bout with Berbick, the winner of Muhammad Ali's last battle in 1981, Ali received two old newspaper friends in his hotel suite. He only faintly remembered them and vaguely introduced his fourth wife. He performed his card tricks as if they had never seen them before, and once more stuffed the disappearing handkerchief into his plastic thumb. "I'm good, I'm free," he said with an animal effort, a coughing rumble and a low growl. "I stay so busy, I'm in another world. All my boxing, it was all for this." Painstakingly, appearing...
BERNARD BAILYN rarely takes on a project without the challenges of discovering attics of old letters, logbooks, and ledgers, or whole libraries of journals written in pre-Revolutionary script. His latest book, Voyagers to the West--A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution, fits right into the Bailyn tradition...
With this disclaimer, Bailyn counts exactly 9868 individuals who officially left for the colonies between December 1773 and March 1776. Using a variety of other sources including American port entry legers, he estimates that the total emigration to the colonies during these few months on the eve of the Revolution was between...