Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tireless Brynteson completed the hat trick with ten minutes remaining in the first half. This time, Ferrante crossed to St. Louis near the right post. When a Brown defender broke up St. Louis, the ball squirted over to Brynteson, who slammed it home for the game's final score...
...screening room has wall-to-wall carpeting. Spider plants spill down from pots hung near the windows. A poster urges lucky tourists to ski the slopes at nearby Westford. Belisle's manner is businesslike. At 35 he is already graying and his narrow face has a mournful, clerkish look. But the transactions he records in this brightly furnished office in Worcester, Mass., deal not with commerce but with cruelty. And cruelty of a kind that few people can contemplate with any measure of equanimity-the torture of small children by their parents...
...legal problems. He claimed his wife "was a criminally mistreated and unhappy person." He accused her mother of "vicious and dehumanizing" verbal assaults and said her opposition to the marriage demoralized Alexandra. He threatened: "If a more equitable approach to my case is not adopted in the near future, I have no other recourse but to use publicity by furnishing evidence to the newspapers that will destroy the false image of the family or by furnishing evidence and information to the IRS about a multimillion-dollar tax evasion." Michaelides, however, provided no evidence in the letter to support his charges...
...return of the objects taken from me, and permanent disassociation from the pure maliciousness that prompted the accusations." At Staunton Hill, meanwhile, Sasha's grave is empty. Her body was exhumed late last year for an autopsy, after which her remains were cremated and buried in Maryland near her father's grave. The romantic headstone originally provided by Michaelides has been thrown away...
...present turmoil in Iran: [It] is a struggle against a cruel oppression. The people of Iran have no faith in the new Premier, [Jaafar] Sharif-Emami. He and his Cabinet are unable to solve Iran's problems. [But] victory is near, and the Shah and his entire system will be overthrown...