Word: keepers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...divorce, David wed Jane Eustace, editor at Cornwell's English publishers, Hodder & Stoughton. After Son Nicholas was born in 1972 the new family centered on the cliff house in Cornwall. To go farther west from London and still dwell in England, the citizen would have to be a lighthouse keeper. In a way, Le Carré is precisely that...
Harvard had only one more chance the rest of the game, when Tony Ardilla smashed shot past the Lions' keeper and toward the corner of the net. Luck did not bless the Crimson, though, as the blast ricocheted off the post and bounded away...
Carew does not strike out very often (52 whiffs last year). Nor are his many hits limited to a third of the playing field as is the case with most pulling power hitters. A lefthanded hitter (who throws rightie), he sprays the field like a grounds keeper's sprinkler; inside pitches are pulled, outside pitches go rocketing into left field, and, on the odd occasion when a careless hurler puts one down the pipe, the ball goes up the middle. Opponents cannot concoct a latter-day version of the Williams Shift-loading the defense to blanket a portion...
Professor Blum contended that as Wilson met the needs of his own personality, it led him to make statements rooted in illusion. Wilson, in the judgment of his chronicler, was at once the keeper of a rigid conscience and the creature of a political system that worked only when he bent that conscience to conform. Wilson found that the power of his office could carry him only so far. Then, the historian declared, the President either had to combine influence with compromise or, defending virtue, lose his way. Carter, "the missionary," travels a hazardous course...
...Williams points us back to pagan nature with the Hemlock family -Daddy Tim, hunter, farmer, "maker of things"; Mother Eugenia, keeper of the kitchen garden and hearth and the two Hemlock children, Son Arn, 9, and Daughter Jen, 7. This is the family primeval, whose only contact with civilization is the annual visit of the Traveler, who trades lead shot, gunpowder, needles, salt and flint for the Hemlocks' superbly crafted knives and moccasins...