Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University late last week won a $1.25-million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to aid in the development of the Core Curriculum...
...late afternoon, and many of the 706 passengers of the Italian cruise ship Angelina Laura were straggling back after a day of shopping in the small seaport of Charlotte Amalie in the U.S. Virgin Islands. In the galley, preparations were under way for dinner. Then an electrical wire caught fire, perhaps ignited by some burning grease, and soon the flames were spreading uncontrollably through the luxury liner. Said Fireman Boyd Brown: "There were flames shooting out of every porthole on all decks. It was like a towering inferno...
...Bahamian government insisted that the monarch was there only for a "short visit." There were rumors that the Shah was considering Brazil as his next stop. Meanwhile, he could console himself with the thought that the Bahamas for centuries have been a refuge for exiles-including, most recently, the late Howard Hughes and fugitive Financier Robert Vesco...
...well-known writer requested to speak with student writers about the problems of writing. I signed up and entered the room where the meeting was held in a mood of excited expectation that the meeting with someone whose work you admire inspires. She arrived a half-hour late, coming from a dinner held in her honor and accompanied by a woman described as a dear friend whose wrist the elderly writer clasped throughout the evening, as if for strength. An adulatory hush came over the room as she began to speak in her rambling, stammering, repetitive way. After about twenty...
...United States could not muster the 650,000 soldiers needed in the first six months. It would be seven months before the first man not in the Ready Reserves could report for duty, says one Senate aide, "and in modern warfare, that would be about six months too late." For the first time ever, all four military services failed to meet their recruiting quotas in the last quarter...