Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus ended the 42-day captivity of U.S. Brigadier General James L. Dozier, 50, as well as the largest man hunt in Italian history. A dramatic and unexpected triumph, it was only the second time in the Red Brigades' decade-long reign of terror that one of the group's kidnaping victims had been rescued by police.* Said a somewhat shaken Dozier to his Italian liberators: "Police! Marvelous...
...literary cliche: the world microcosm, the great passions of the large war replicated on a smaller scale, not among nations, but among a small group of individuals. In the beginning there is peace and a rustic scene of a small girls' school preparing for a charity Easter egg hunt. This Easter peace is broken when one of the young students at the school is discovered to be missing...
Gillian Freeman, who is quite literate, is a writer in the Austen tradition. With its gothic surprise ending and all, the plot of An Easter Egg Hunt could be summarized in a couple of lines. Yet Freeman does more than merely tell a story. She re-creates an era. The story is set in the famed English countryside, during World War I. The Great War intrudes on the narrative no more than it intrudes on the small girls' school in which the action transpires. Tightened food supplies and army cadets training nearby are the only evidence in the girls' little...
...Harvard Women's Track team is riding high. With a 3-0 record, fresh talent in the sprints and hurdles, and extraordinary depth in the distance events, the squad has justly earned head coach Pappy Hunt's proud declaration, "This is the finest winter squad we've ever...
...past two years, offers lavish scholarships to its athletes and therefore is not normally scheduled to square off against the Crimson squad during the season. When perusing a potent B.U. lineup that includes 27-year-old sophomore Julie White--a favorite in both the long and high jumps--Hunt sighs, "What the hell are we supposed...