Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Controversy or not, conservation or not, one overriding fact remains: we'll need the power sooner or later. So let's get it from the cheapest source at hand-nuclear...
...solve her problem. And there is the case of Esther Peterson, the nation's highest-ranking consumer-affairs official. An unfunny thing happened to her on the way to the Action Line Conference. She showed up at the Commuter Airlines counter at Washington National Airport, with ticket in hand and a confirmed reservation on the day's only flight to the Elmira, N.Y., airport, which serves Corning. You can guess what happened...
...guards. Thereupon the slightly built, 35-year-old gate crasher whipped out a three-inch knife from his Bible and slashed one officer's face and another's arm. Wielding long billy clubs like cattle prods, the guards warily circled Henry, poked the knife out of his hand and forced him to the ground. They then took him off to jail; later a magistrate sent him to St. Elizabeths Hospital for psychiatric evaluation. He never did get to voice his complaint to the President...
...rejected a U.S. plan for bringing peace to Lebanon two weeks ago, Syrian President Hafez Assad rejected a French proposal for installing a United Nations buffer force between the warring sides. "It is not logical that a buffer should be established between troublemakers and mutineers on the one hand and the legitimate forces on the other," snapped Assad, whose troops in Lebanon are nominally under Sarkis' command...
...Haldeman would be the logical choice to take over the Pirates, heavyweight John Mitchell might find a home in the world of high-class professional wrestling, and sentimental Charles Colson, who once vowed that he would walk over his own grandmother if the need arose, could try his hand managing the New York Mets, whose quality of play often evokes grandmotherly epithets. The possibilities are, unfortunately, almost limitless...