Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Front-Line Casualty In your story about embattled diplomats [Nov. 26] you mention that "in the past eleven years, four American ambassadors have been killed in the line of duty." Actually, there have been five, since you omitted my old friend and Foreign Service colleague, Frank Meloy, Ambassador to Lebanon, who was killed in Beirut on June...
...means fail to mention, before we're all abed...
...Trekkies and Trekkers greeted the news with mixed emotions. (For the uninitiated, Trekkies wear Spock ears, hound the actors for autographs, and faint if they see Leonard Nimoy in person. Trekkers publish fanzines and write doctoral theses on the show, hound the writers for autographs, and sneer when they mention Trekkies.) Both species were hopeful but anxious, afraid that a film flop would ruin the memory of the series...
Defense: Julie Starr, an All-Ivy Honorable Mention player for the 1978-79 season, and co-captain Lauren Norton--who leads the team in points this year with two goals and an assist--give a young Harvard team an experienced edge. Alice Hill, Anna Jones and Sue Putnam (all upperclassmen) round out the corps of defensemen...
...press that now questions, if not attacks, every move of its leaders, bears little resemblance to its timid predecessor. The Fourth Estate has mushroomed into an institution powerful enough to engineer a President's downfall. Davis's failure to consider this development on the press's part (not to mention the Post's part) exemplifies her inability to reach beyond the biases and assumptions of conspiratorial politics...