Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since his arrival in Moscow 2½ years ago, U.S. News & World Report Correspondent Robin Knight has been regularly denounced by the official news agency Tass and a number of daily newspapers, especially for his articles on racism in the U.S.S.R. The weekly Soviet New Times called Knight "a boot-level journalist," and a Soviet journalism review included him in a "gallery of rogues...
According to Knight, his hosts ultimately were unable to confine their hostility to the printed page. While visiting the city of Tashkent, 1,800 miles southeast of Moscow, Knight and his wife Jean went to a tearoom to help celebrate their Intourist guide's 29th birthday. Robin Knight was given a drink that, he says, made him feel "very ill and out of control." He staggered outside and passed out. Meantime, Knight later said, one of the four Soviet men present told Jean that her husband had "sold" her to them, and another began to paw her. She broke...
Harvard finished with a team aggregate of 432, while B.C. and Salem State tied at 435. As Himelman battled the course like a lone knight errant, George Arnold posted an 86 for the Crimson. Spence Fitzgibbons and Chip Raffi both fired 89s in their season debut, and Jimmy Dales shot an even...
...there was also a true eloquence in their short pleas. Carter had not finished writing his text until a few minutes before the ceremony. His son Jack, who had come up from Georgia the night before, had brought part of an essay on peace by the Rev. Walker L. Knight of Atlanta. The President was so taken with the thoughts that he melded them into his speech ("Peace, like war, is waged"), and then touched off a desperate effort to track down the Rev. Mr. Knight to get his approval. The pastor was delighted. Carter will never be a stirring...
...neither naturalist demigod nor realist picaresque, sets out on a journey on which depends the future of his race or his nation. He sets out to achieve his identity in the most widely accepted tradition of Western literature: the journey. From the Odyssey to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, amidst the background of superhuman danger, virtue came in the struggle of the hero and his triumph over evil forces...