Word: path
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that was now his "uniform." "How well I fit in," he thought. "They all think they're so smart around here, but they'd never suspect...." Yet even before he finished this reflection, he felt something slam into him and knock him off balance. Picking himself up from the path, he saw a little foreign-looking man scramble up from the ground and rush over...
With that he snatched a book bag that was actually lying on the path and thrust it into Biff's arms. Before the bewildered detective had time to say anything, the little alien scurried off into the crowds pouring out of Sever Hall...
Mano o Mano. In life, Juan Belmonte's triumph was a victory of utter weakness. He stood fast in the path of the bull, directing its charge with a close sweep of his crimson muleta, winding the bull around him, said Ernest Hemingway, "like a belt-his right leg pushed toward the bull, in that bent slant which will be copied but never made truly until another genius comes in the same twisted body." Twisted, small, weak, Belmonte survived with courage that was more than a match for his inability to move with the bull. "My legs were...
...President James Perkins has sent a letter to Gov. Volpe protesting the passage of the bill. He notes its uncertain path through the legislature and asserts that "plans of municipal government should be considered only at municipal elections, when the voters of a city are undistracted by national or state issues...
...Stevens has never slipped (not even in the bath-tub, they say). Like Faubus, Stevens rose to power from backwoods obscurity, and the two men were influential in making each other's fortunes. Stevens has financed Faubus' career, while Faubus has consistently done all his all to smooth the path of the Witt Stevens Company, the Arkansas-Louisiana Gas Corporation (ArkLa), which Stevens controls, and the man's many other far-flung enterprises. Like many of his ilk, Stevens desires to keep in the background; and since nothing of the sort could be further from Faubus' mind, they are hand...