Word: host
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...promised a lively beginning for an administration that confronts a host of problems. Atlanta last year had a record 271 murders, and Jackson talks about crime as a problem much the way that Coleman Young does. "This city has never seen the kind of offensive we are going to mount against drugs, criminality and homicide," he pledged last week. "Those who are in dope in this city had better pack their bags...
...announced their conversion to neuroscience, the discipline that deals with the brain and nervous system. The work of the neuroscientists has already produced an exponential increase in man's understanding of the brain-and a good bit of immediately applicable knowledge as well. It has led to a host of new medical and surgical treatments for such disorders as schizophrenia, depression, Parkinson's disease and epilepsy. It has also resulted in improved and promising new techniques for relieving pain and controlling some forms of violence...
...became convinced of Russia's industrial potential. So as Canadian-born, Cleveland-based Cyrus Eaton made and remade several industrial fortunes in steel, railroads and rubber over the years, he also worked for détente between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.: traveling behind the Iron Curtain, playing host to Russian leaders when they visited the U.S., proposing trade deals and in 1957 assembling at his original home in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, one of the first international scientific conferences to discuss the dangers of nuclear disaster. Last week, when Eaton turned 90, he received congratulatory telegrams from President Podgorny...
...wife of a wealthy and titled Englishman?" Answer: No-five afternoons a week. Backstage Wife followed the fortunes of an unassuming lady, Mary Noble, married to a matinee idol-a situation so potent that Bob and Ray's parasitic satire, Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife, has outlived its host...
...enough to make her interesting in spite of her other sterling qualities. To help pay her family's debts, Kieu sells herself into concubinage and is tricked into becoming a common whore in the house of a ruthless madam. Thereafter Kieu is ravaged, reviled and degraded by a host of villainous men and women. At last, after a rebel warrior who helped her obtain revenge is killed, Kieu throws herself into the Ch'ien-t'ang River. She is rescued by a Buddhist nun and finds peace in the contemplative life-only to be reunited unexpectedly with...