Word: occurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would go into hiding?" The restrained Dutch reaction to the prince's misdeeds stems largely from a deep affection for Queen Juliana, who is popularly regarded as a kindly monarch. But as the Dutch began their recovery from the Lockheed malaise, new outbreaks of the disease began to occur elsewhere...
...maimings-athletic, psychological and sexual-occur without letup. Their culmination is the madness and chaos of the rattlesnake hunt itself, with the implication that the ancient, once powerful symbol of the snake has been so trivialized it no longer has the capacity to heal. As in past novels, Crews gets carried away with his own wildly fertile imagination and verbal gifts. His new book is full of brilliant descriptions and characters attempting to kick and gouge their way through some back door to salvation. The problem is that there is too little distinction between the truly grotesque and the gratuitously...
...people who must win to be happy, and the people for whom making good shots is what matters. All of them run risks of great humiliation in tennis. Along with cooperative pleasure, hostility, subservience, competitiveness, narcissism are all at play, sometimes in conflict with one another. Inner conflicts occur, however, when subconscious primitive urges (read id) and value systems (read super ego) clash. A player about to realize a "forbidden desire"?from simply winning to smashing a ball at a female opponent?is a player in trouble. There are other divided and ultimately unstrung souls: the man who needs...
...Women are hurt more deeply and stay hurt longer by losses. I've had women come to me saying they wanted to be good enough to beat someone two years from now. The arguments in the new all-women's leagues are something like 25 times as many as occur in the men's leagues. For many women who don't work, tennis is their only outlet. There is no definite reward system in being a mother. With tennis there is a definite reward system...
...year 1976 started off so strongly on Wall Street that market analysts all but unanimously thought stock averages would push to record highs. As late as June, there were hopes that the rise would occur during the summer. Instead, brokers and investors have been sunning themselves on beaches, and hopes for a summer rally have finally disappeared in the past two weeks. Prices have drifted sideways on light volume during most of the hot weather, and are now ending the dog days with a downturn. The Dow Jones industrial average two weeks ago fell 33 points, following Robert Dole...