Word: leone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leon Jaworski, former Watergate special prosecutor: "I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate...
...Charles Dickens; concluded by Leon Garfield; André Deutsch; 327 pages...
...left with only the latter half of the novel, composed without the tone or richness of its predecessor. The reader might well sigh with Kate Perugini, Dickens' daughter: "In my father's grave lies buried the secret of his story." And yet ... and yet ... the Londoner Leon Garfield, 59, hitherto a writer of juveniles, composes his own conclusion to Edwin Drood, including Antony Maitland's new illustrations, happily capturing the Master's locutions: "Curious, bland, yet deeply various gentleman ... he was very like a convert to a new faith, who walks in the ways...
...miss meant that Harvard had to step up the tempo, while Princeton could afford to lay back and play a composed game. Crimson midfielder Leon Lanzillo explained: "If we had hit the penalty shot, they couldn't have continued to play with the poise they did, and we could have gone after them...
...striven mightily to turn back the clock, coming out of a two-year retirement to train harder than ever. Since his defeat of Leon Spinks in the fall of 1978, Ali had ballooned to a blubbery 254 Ibs. But after he signed (for $8 million) to fight Holmes in a 25,000-seat temporary arena specially built in the parking lot of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Ali retreated to his training camp in the Pennsylvania mountains to whittle away the excess pounds. More than two months of arduous workouts reduced him to fighting trim; he weighed...