Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Somebody on the Taft University basketball team is shaving points, the rumor goes, and Spenser, the soft-centered hard-guy detective, soon discovers a grubbier scandal. Nobody at Taft will admit it, but the team's star power forward has been passed through his courses for nearly four years despite the fact that he can't read. Spenser is shocked -- he believes in truth, honor and grade-point averages -- and he sets out to discover which lizards, tenured and not, are responsible. The reader puts up his feet and gets comfortable. That's a bad sign. Too much comfort...
...Cyprus sessions noted such messy problems within Anglicanism as opponents' refusing to recognize either women priests or priests ordained by female bishops. As for the Pope's letter, Archbishop Runcie soothingly characterized it as "only a matter of straight speaking between friends that can help the dialogue go forward." In England, Margaret Orr Deas, of the Movement for the Ordination of Women, complained that "the Roman Catholics are not giving anything away" in the negotiations, and she expects no concessions because John Paul is "an unrelenting man and firmly entrenched in his views." The Pope's stern letter...
...past four years, Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) has put forward a slate of candidates for the 30-member governing board in an effort to force the University to sell its $163.8 million in South Africa-related investments...
...Wilmington, Del., it turned out that the orange roof covered only a Howard Johnson motor lodge and the adjoining restaurant called itself Bob's Big Boy. It would be uncharitable to criticize a Big Boy restaurant for not being a Howard Johnson's, but when one has been looking forward to a Howard Johnson's hot dog and a dish of Howard Johnson's maple walnut, anything that Big Boy has to offer is, well, not the same. And if one inquires politely how far down the superhighway one must go to find the next Howard Johnson's restaurant...
Early-morning commuter traffic clogged the intersection when the armored Cherokee station wagon eased to a halt at a red light in downtown San Salvador. A moment later a man darted forward, placed a bomb on the car roof, then fled just before the explosion. The driver and a bodyguard escaped with minor injuries. But the man in the back seat was killed. He was Attorney General Roberto Garcia Alvarado, the highest-ranking government official to be slain in a war that has claimed some 70,000 lives over the past nine years...