Word: looms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stirred his first controversy by hinting that he might stop the review of the Kent State shootings that had been ordered by Richardson. Saxbe has outspoken views on capital punishment (for) and gun-control legislation (against). All in all, Saxbe's tenure at the Justice Department did not loom as a quiet one. That prospect seemed to bother the frustrated legislator not at all. "You sit around the Senate for years and think of what you could do; you shoot your mouth off," says Saxbe. "Then they hand you the ball. You can't go home...
...darkness falls, the skyline of Portland, Ore., takes on an eerie cast, as if the city of 390,000 were deserted. Along the downtown streets, the familiar glow of neon signs is missing. Against the horizon, the 30-story Georgia-Pacific Building and 40-story First National Bank Tower loom like abandoned hulks, their silhouettes illuminated only by a meager handful of office lights and the winking red beacons that warn aircraft that the buildings still stand...
Harvard's loss to Dartmouth may loom larger and larger as the season progresses. However, next week's game against Penn will probably reveal a lot more than Saturday's loss to the Big Green. The Crimson can set its season straight with a victory over the Quakers--a loss could all but end any hopes for a Harvard title this season...
...visit Moscow since 1956, Tanaka was primarily interested in discussing the return to Japanese control of four islands north of Hokkaido that were seized by the Soviets at the tail end of the war. Though small geographically (4,244 sq. mi.), the islands-Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotani and Habomai*-loom large politically. The Diet has been pressing Tanaka to assert Japan's rights to the islands. If Tanaka could arrange their return under a belated peace treaty with Russia formally ending World War II, it would be a major and much-needed personal triumph...
...quite come out from behind the prose screens). More than any of his 17 previous novels, the story takes off from the workaday world in search of the ineffable. The familiar trappings of Wright's baroque realism turn up: the taste of switch grass and cord grass, the loom of grain elevators, the feel of a kitten dropped by wanton boys into a country-school privy. But the subject is myth. Old, unbelieving, literal-minded Floyd Warner takes on immortal longings. Having defied common sense by taking a herd of sheep and a wife to the banks...