Word: framed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dartmouth was worried now, it turned green (as in sick, not Big) when, early in the second frame, Sigillito did a little one step, two step for a seven-yard, his second, Harvard's third score. The Crimson was doing what it pleased, and it was pleased by what it was doing...
Derided as the "captain of a wrecked ship," Smiley tries to find a coup so stunning it will restore the Circus' reputation?and funding. From the outset, he has one obsessive target: Karla, head of Soviet agent operations, whose spectral face stares down from its frame in Smiley's office. The relationship of the opposing spymasters, playing international chess for men's souls, is worth a book in itself. Karla is an evil genius who once instructed his mole to seduce Smiley's wife?to make the Briton doubt his motives for suspecting Haydon. Smiley's pure, patriotic zeal...
...best way to appreciate Chicago, which after two successful years on Broadway has finally arrived in Boston, is to get in a corruptible frame of mind, and then, sit back and admire the procession of expertly choreographed song and dance routines...
...cars can do it if the drivers cannot. Custom-built for $15,000 apiece, they are three-quarter-size versions of the Formula 1 racer, powered by 28-h.p. Wankel rotary engines capable of 67 m.p.h. on the open road. The brightly colored Fiberglas bodies are mounted on tubular-frame chassis; spun-aluminum wheels carry oversize Goodyear racing-slick tires. They have automatic transmission and quick-ratio steering; brakes are front-wheel disc and rear-wheel drum. The cars are almost impossible to roll over...
...move to the city's West Side from Mississippi nine years ago. She brought two children North, now has four more?along with two left to her care by an aunt, plus two younger brothers and a sister to tend. The extended family lives in a two-story frame house bracketed by vacant lots, gutted houses and apartment buildings. Albirtha has not held a job since 1968. One reason: her wage would be less than her $420.60 monthly welfare payment plus the $298.80 she receives in Social Security survivors' benefits?and she would have to pay the cost...