Word: holing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Magnificent Obsession and Jack London's The Sea Wolf. All dealt with the victory of the spirit over adversity. Even in prison, Sadat was a loner who kept silent, remembers Moussa Sabry, one of four inmates who escaped with Sadat from an earlier jailing. They crawled through a hole in the roof of the camp's rabbit hutch. Says Sabry: "Somehow Sadat made us hold the secret from the hundreds of prisoners...
...passport stamped, cashed $200 in traveler's checks and strode out of the airport. About eight hours later Holden's body was found beside a road near the airport, his pockets empty, the labels ripped off his tailor-made suit and a single bullet hole in his back...
...stay with NBC, and in his new ten-year contract has the assurance of shortly becoming a commentator. As for CBS, unable to get either Chancellor or Bill Moyers, Salant decided not to fill the 2½-minute Sevareid spot: "After all, it's 10% of our news hole...
...They were out in their garden, digging a hole big enough to bury a pirate's hoard of doubloons. In that cavity they were planning to plant ye turkey. 'But why on earth, or rather in earth?' I wittily enquired. 'Because of Bocuse,' they explained. 'In the gospel according to St. Paul, on page 258 of his newe book-the great French chef relays the recipe of his grandpere, to wit: bury the bird for two full days before the feast. Digit...
Plunging through a hole, cutting to elude pursuing linebackers, squirming for ward with with the tacklers best of draped around and to him, have Payton earned may be the hardest runner to bring down in the N.F.L. game. "He's just mule-headed," says his mother Alyne, whose oldest son Eddie returns kicks for the Detroit Lions. "When five or six players get him, he just won't give...