Word: path
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most searing of all is Turner's tearjerking meaculpa, tracing his discovery that he would have to tread a different path in life. The moment comes at perhaps Turner's lowest point in the film; he has just finished "blowing off the lid" completely with a striking male hooker, and the wrenching innards come spilling out as he stares glazed-eyed into the shadow-draped confines of his Toronto flat. The essence of his platonic relationship with Liza reveals itself in all its poignant fullness here; comforting the dejected Turner, Liza eggs him on to do something "dazzling...
Through tempests the sunrays of freedom have cheered us. Along the new path where great Lenin did lead. Be true to the people, thus Stalin has reared us. Inspired us to labor and valorous deed...
...surely has the potential. From his tightly guarded headquarters in Fragrant Hill Park, a sprawling, tree-lined compound of antenna-covered villas and underground facilities about a half-hour drive from downtown Peking, Wang runs the Chinese equivalents of the U.S.'s FBI, Secret Service and CIA. His path to Fragrant Hill began early in the 1930s when, as a country-boy corporal in the Communist forces fighting the Nationalist regime, he became Mao's personal bodyguard. He quickly rose to command Mao's entire security force; in a legendary 1947 operation, he managed to save...
...Path Between the Seas, McCullough...
...Historian David McCullough recounts in his current bestseller, The Path Between the Seas, a Panamanian secessionist who would soon become the first president of Panama, Dr. Manuel Amador Guerrero, met with Bunau-Varilla in room 1162 of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on Sept. 24, 1903. Bunau-Varilla later called that room "the cradle of the Panama republic." The frail, bespectacled Amador wanted assurance that the U.S. would support a Panamanian revolution. Bunau-Varilla left for Washington to put the question to Roosevelt. The Frenchman received "no assurances," Roosevelt said later, but the President added...