Word: founds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter, meanwhile, had been doing some phoning of his own and was startled by what he found. Of the 30 backbenchers with whom he talked, ten said their vote depended upon what Wright did. This persuaded Carter to endorse the Texan's new compromise...
Workmen resurfaced the tennis court, so there is good play when the cool comes in the evening. Before they went to work they took a boring of the old court, fearing that they would have to start with a new foundation. But what they found was three or four other surfaces laid down like geologic strata-late Cal Coolidge, early Franklin Roosevelt, middle...
Last week police found him dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in the cab of a pickup truck in Emigration Canyon, a few miles east of the city. Rachel took the news of his suicide calmly, telling officers that her husband was ready for life in the next world, and returned to the suite...
Seeking to learn more about her new husband's country, Christina Onassis recently asked a friend: "Who is Dostoyevsky?" One wonders what the great Russian novelist, a master of morbid psychology, would have made of last week's strange marriage in Moscow. Would he have found a chapter in The Possessed for impulsive, dark-eyed Christina, 27, the twice-divorced, jet-setting daughter of the late shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis? Would another Karamazov brother have emerged from his reflections on her spouse, Sergei Kauzov, 37, a former sales representative of the Soviet ship-chartering agency Sovfracht...
...reference: Fred Stiles, a colleague of Jamey's, "thought of himself as the hero of a Balzac novel"; Amy complains to her husband, "You're treating me like Nora in A Doll's House"; in a more charitable mood, she broods, "The Brontë governess had found her Rochester...