Word: manor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a really full schedule this year--the biggest ever," Rhodes said. The team has dropped Pine Manor and added Connecticut College, Boston University, and Southern Massachusetts University to its schedule for this season...
...felt but unseen influences that dominate the collective memory at Rubery Owen is John Owen's 67-year-old father, Sir Alfred, now bedridden within New Hall, the family's vast 14th century manor in Sutton Coldfield, twelve miles from Darlaston. Sir Alfred has not been seen at the Darlaston plant since...
...become slacker and there has been a tendency toward capriciousness, which always lay just behind her virtuosity. Curtain turns back time to her great days. For a setting it goes all the way back to Styles St. Mary, where she and Poirot, her most famous creation, started out. The manor, which was once occupied by gentry, has become during World War II a rather meanly run "guesthouse," but in other respects, it is positively miraculous how little has changed since 1916. Then, as later, the action begins with the arrival of Captain Hastings, easily the most blockheaded tribute ever paid...
Some delegates were sympathetic, some embarrassed, but the League took no action against Mussolini. Haile Selassie returned to England, where he lived in a modest manor house outside Bath. Almost five years later, after the British army had driven the Italians from Addis Ababa, he returned to his mountain capital in triumph. His nation had lost several hundred thousand men in battle and in mass executions, but the Emperor issued orders to his countrymen that the Italian civilians who chose to stay in Ethiopia should be allowed to do so undisturbed...
...women, that is. It's hard to pin down the reasons for this, and of course they vary from case to case. One big factor is probably the fear that if you start something with a woman in your House, as opposed to a woman at Wellesley or Pine Manor, it will inevitably become something "intense." But another big factor is probably the mistaken impression that many men have that every Radcliffe woman has 2.5 men beating down her door. They just give up before they start. As a result, many of the women are developing all sorts of insecurities...