Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Keeping his animated cast continually popping up and down and in and out, director Tunc Yalman maintains the verbose proceedings at a lively pace and uses the play's plentiful with to maximum advantage with frequent humorous bits of business. Some of Yolman's devices seem toofar-fetched, such as when he sends Mrs. Tarleton rushing to place her handkerchief over a small skull displayed on the writing table during a speech about her dead child. But countless other touches are hilarious and enhance Shaw's clever dialogue...
Snarled Traffic. Rumblings of the Cyprus crisis echoed all around the Mediterranean. Syria placed its forces on maximum alert, and President Hafez Assad canceled a state visit to Yugoslavia. The Egyptian government ordered its navy to stay at home...
...agreement on a new contract that made a mockery of Mayor William D. Schaefer's vow to hold pay increases to 6%. Garbage men's salaries will leap 20%%, from $3.42 an hour to $4.12, by July 1975, while policemen's will soar 22%, to a maximum of $ 13,500 a year...
...would "shut down the State of Ohio," the strike hit prisons, mental hospitals and state-controlled liquor stores. Fearing that the strike would close the state's 290 liquor stores, many Ohioans ventured into Indiana to stock up on potables. National Guardsmen who were dispatched to the maximum-security prison in Lucasville were unable to penetrate the massed pickets at the prison gates; the Guardsmen entered the penitentiary by helicopter...
...least ten states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina and Virginia have death as the maximum rape penalty...