Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blood in the living room where he said he was attacked, for instance, and FBI experts testified that the pattern and type of slashes in a pajama top did not fit MacDonald's account of the struggle. Defense Attorney Bernard Segal intends to appeal, partly on the ground that the long delay violated Mac-Donald's constitutional right to a speedy trial. The Kassabs professed not to be worried. Said Mildred Kassab...
After the war, Mountbatten literally made history: as the last British Viceroy and first Governor-General on the Indian subcontinent, he oversaw the birth of self-government in the Empire's biggest possession, thus breaking ground for the postcolonial era. In 1955 he vindicated his father's name when Churchill appointed him First Sea Lord. Finally, during a six-year stint as chief of the Defense Staff, he built Britain's unified defense system, which he regarded as one of his major triumphs...
...year-olds, while makers of pocket calculators in Hong Kong sweatshops employ nimble-fingered girls who are under 14. Many have lost fingers as a result of accidents at work. In many of the carpet mills of Morocco, female "apprentices" under 13 work for no wages on the ground that they are getting free training. Since Moroccan law stipulates that any worker 13 or over must be salaried as an adult, the carpet industry usually fires its children when they become teenagers and replaces them with younger girls...
Lucky Day, ebullient and ironic by turns, is obviously an attempt to break some new ground, both a modification of what Price has called "diary music" and a tentative rapprochement with "have fun" tunes. It may seem like a transitional record. But first cut to last, it sounds like a good time, the restless work of a front-rank pop talent...
...Love You Too and nearly not hear the scalding observation "Love only lasts until believers leave us" stashed between choruses like a serpent in the sheets. Price is a jaded romantic with a misfit imagination and a battered social conscience, a lapsed rocker who has taken the middle ground without losing his principles...