Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under the new program, a freshman who needs additional help can receive an extra hour a week of individual counseling on his writing if his instructor advises...
...firemen, by pumping water into the cellar, extinguished the flames within half an hour...
...curlers knit sweaters at the wheels of then-station wagons in the predawn blackness of Miami. Young couples in Manhattan, armed with sandwiches and hot chocolate, invite friends along for an evening of gasoline shopping. Connecticut executives regale each other with lurid tales of mile-long queues and two-hour waits at the pump. Otherwise sane citizens are in the cold grip of the nation's newest obsession: gasoline fever...
...Sadat, 40, a comely woman with dark brown hair and eyes and a fetching smile. Scarcely a year ago, students demonstrating against the regime covered Cairo walls with insults directed at her, the largely unknown First Lady. But since the October War, when Mrs. Sadat spent highly publicized 20-hour days visiting troops, touring hospitals and working as a bandage roller with the Egyptian Red Crescent, she has won over even these youthful critics. Civilians as well as soldiers refer to her by the sobriquet conferred by the armed forces, "Mother of the Fighting...
...Actors Company staging of Knots wraps an hour's worth of such vicious circular logic in music hall routines that include slapstick, songs, juggling, mime and dance. Ironically, the format runs into a Laingian knot or two. The words cannot satisfy the action, which in turn fails to satisfy the words. The reason is that Laing's knots are not truly Gordian but slip; what appears complex comes apart with a simple tug. This may even be the point, but it still leaves the actors-none of whom are Laurel or Hardy, or Gallagher & Shean-striving frantically...