Word: globe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cold. So cold a Boston Globe reporter and Boston Herald reporter abandoned the open-air press box Saturday at the Yale Bowl and found shelter in the Eli field house, content to listen to the game on the radio...
...Percival Bartlebooth, whose past, along with those of dozens of other tenants, gradually emerges. In 1925, Bartlebooth embarks on the rigid program he has mapped out for the rest of his life. He spends ten years learning how to paint watercolors. For the next 20 years he travels the globe, rendering one seaport scene roughly every two weeks and sending each painting to Paris, where a craftsman turns the artwork into a jigsaw puzzle. From 1955 to 1975, Bartlebooth, back in his apartment, solves each puzzle and then has the reassembled watercolor shipped to its place of origin, where...
...head of the federal Joint Accounting Improvement Program from 1947 to 1956, Frese oversaw widespread reforms of federal financial practices, according to Saturday's Boston Globe...
...letter to university officials explaining his decision, Knapp said that, despite their selections, the eight men on the selection committee were sensitive in their deliberations to the issues raised in the Globe editorial...
What The Crimes of Patriots does provide, however, is the disquieting realization that Oliver North and Richard Secord are merely a few of a much larger number who storm across the globe, advancing highly idiosyncratic versions of U.S. foreign policy. As Kwitny writes: "Actors come and go. It is the roles that stay, and that we need to be concerned with...