Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worry about me," he said. "I'm from Illinois. I can handle this stuff. Want a joyride?" Berg declined, then watched the truck slam downhill into a Volkswagen and another truck. Amazingly, no one was hurt. Says she: "My jaws were frozen into a laugh for about an hour...
...furious poor of Cairo, Alexandria, Suez and a string of smaller towns, hearing Kaissouni's announcement, poured into the streets in a 48-hour rampage. "Dismayed and distraught," Sadat hurried back to the capital from his winter home at Aswan and ordered troops to back up his besieged riot police. For one of the few times in his six-year administration, Sadat was apparently stunned and frightened by the violence of the Egyptian masses. On the drive from a helicopter pad to his office, his swift-moving convoy was guarded by three select commando battalions and two armored units...
...response to last week's record quiz, we would have both packed up all our Strawberry Alarm Clock records and headed to Guadaloupe. In a word, the response was amazing. Over forty people rationalized themselves into thinking that it would be good for their soul to take an hour or so off in the middle of exams to do this inane amalgamation of tune teasers...
...Specials give customers all kinds of services beyond what the city provides. "I will be on call 24 hours a day," declares Grebmeier, 37. Clients pay anywhere from $35 a month (for a small family dwelling or retail store) to $450 (for a large apartment house) for three to six regular nightly inspections. For an extra fee, the Grebmeiers will collect mail on weekends, carry deposits to the bank, deliver children home from the airport or trail along with clients as bodyguards at $11.50 an hour...
Roots, Alex Haley's bestselling whatzit (not quite a novel, it is not quite history either) has come to television. Its unprecedented twelve-hour, eight-nights-in-a-row run begins on ABC Sunday, Jan. 23. It turns out to be a work of some historical interest, though surely not in the way its creators intended...