Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wolves leave their victim, disappearing at a run down the track toward the next station, their shouted obscenities echoing back through the tunnel. As the Curtis rescued man tries to say thanks, his words are drowned in the roar of an oncoming train. He gets aboard, shakily waving one hand at his young rescuers in a half salute...
...fund raisers called the affair VIP Night on Broadway, and it was indeed that. Scores of celebrities, including TV Star Robin Williams, Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Falsetto Tiny Tim and Actresses Claudette Colbert, Phyllis Newman, Lauren Bacall and Brooke Shields were on hand for a $24-a-seat variety show at the Shubert theater. Maureen Stapleton sang Gilbert and Sullivan's "The policeman's lot is not a happy one." Angela Lansbury borrowed a song from the musical Sweeney Todd, singing for the cops, No One Will Harm You. Those who paid $96-the price of one bulletproof...
...grocer's daughter from a market town in Lincolnshire. Her campaign strategy was designed in part to impress working-class voters, especially women, that she shared their concern about prices and other gut economic issues. At a shopping mall in Halifax, she brandished in her right hand a shopping bag crammed full of groceries, while in her left hand she held a half-empty one. "The right hand," she trilled, "was what a pound would buy under the Tory government in 1974; the other is what one pound would buy under Labor today. If Labor has five more years...
...individual leaders after the first 18 were Dartmouth's sweet-swinging number one man Joe "Ugly" Henley and UConn's John Collich, who blazed in tied at 72. Dartmouth's number two man, bon vivant Gordie Daisley, missed the tourney after punching his hand through a window in a fraternity frazzle...
...weapons or foreign bases or bizarre instances of waste. The B-1 bomber becomes a cause, while the cruise missile gets built. The neutron bomb grabs the public attention, while outmoded long-range bombers are deployed. "The broad links from major military forces to policy goals, on the one hand, and to alternative levels of military spending, on the other hand, have not been made clear," the study group says...