Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tentatively conquered the bottle. She has been seeing a psychotherapist, and attends meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous. She has checked herself on occasion into McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., to the unit for former alcoholics who "feel teetery." Her husband will only say cautiously, "I think she's making great progress...
...years there have been increasing fears that Kim II Sung, 67, North Korea's self-appointed ''great and beloved leader,'' might try once more to fulfill his lifelong dream of reuniting the peninsula by conquest. The crisis in the South seemed just the sort of opportunity that might tempt him to gamble on an American lack of resolve...
...precisely 2 p.m., the first convict was brought forward, and the show began. Since he was over 45, he was, by law, exempt from whipping. Instead, his face was painted black-considered a great humiliation in Islam-and then he was led off to prison. Dressed only in white shorts, knotted in front, the next convict was fastened to the scaffold. He was the first prisoner's son. Both men had been found guilty of running a brothel. A heavy, padded belt was wrapped around his waist to protect his kidneys. An assistant painted a 2-in.-wide...
...Webern, one of the great innovators of the 20th century, this was a spiritual matter. In every vista he saw a creative idea logically developed. The merest wild flower reminded him of Goethe's ''primeval plant,'' symbol of the unity of all organic life. Most important, his moun tain treks re-enacted his artistic aspirations. More than any composer before or since, Webern worked on the timberline between sound and silence. His austere, rigorously condensed pieces seem to hover in a clear, rarefied ether of their own, like clusters of ice crystals on the point...
...from 1926 to 1940; in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Father Coughlin's first broadcasts were religious sermons from his Shrine of the Little Flower Church outside Detroit, but soon he began voicing the discontent of the Depression by berating bankers. Heard in 30 million homes, Coughlin called F.D.R. "the great liar and betrayer" and tried to fuel a third-party movement. He preached against Jews and Communists, among others, and the Catholic Church finally silenced all broadcasts and writings in 1942. Despite his reputation as a demagogue, Coughlin remained a parish priest who served quietly until his retirement...