Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After Himelman gorillaed an eight iron 30 yards over the green, he pitched his second shot back over the carpet and into a ravine. Rather than suffer a penalty shot, however, Himelman entered the hazard barefoot and, in Nicklausian fashion, hammered the spheroid safely onto the putting surface. But the Leverett House senior wasted his watery acrobatics by three-putting the sloping green for a triple bogey...
...province. After earning degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and from Oxford, where he cultivated a taste for fine tailoring and vintage wines, he began his career as a delegate to the U.N. As Foreign Minister in the military government of General Muhammed Ayub Khan, he helped fashion Pakistan's policy of friendship with China. After his country's humiliating defeat in the war that led to independence for Bangladesh, Bhutto, who had quit the Cabinet in 1966 to form his own party, was asked by the generals to take over the government. In what...
...espionage and terrorist novels of the past 20 years were often uncannily predictive; their plots now seem too true to be good. Technology is today's hot pistol, and it is in the hands of the amateur. It may be possible, for example, to heist Plutonium and fashion bombs to hold the world hostage. Private scientists might produce gene-altering chemicals. Almost any handyman can assemble a plastique weapon aimed at a Prime Minister or a whole city block. It is almost a natural consequence that in fiction, the old-line security bureaucracies, from...
...teenage years progressed--in typical enough fashion. Like all young competitive players, Richmond entered the tournament circuit with the New England Lawn Tennis Association (NELTA) and USLTA. Hours of practice, lessons and sacrifice led to rankings, recognition and success...
...doubles competition, Martha Roberts and Richmond teamed up to take the first doubles in convincing fashion, 6-1, 6-3, while Mertz and Meyer took their second doubles by the identical score...