Word: path
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still sniffing, I confidently entered the arena, and no one was the wiser as to my blissful ignorance of horses. Head down, scrupulously scouting the path before me for any deposits I could easily avoid, I ventured onward. First, a tour de stade: those continental expressions go so well with the equine scene...
What possessed Shelley? Holmes has tried to find the answer by retracing a path trampled flat by idolaters. After a pampered, precocious childhood filled with adoring sisters, gothic novels and the promise of an inherited baronetcy, Shelley was thrust into a Dickensian boarding school. At Eton, his refusal to kowtow to senior students earned him the nickname "Mad Shelley." There followed University College, Oxford, which gratefully expelled young Percy Bysshe, after a scant six months, for writing a broadside on atheism...
...more aware than Sadat of the precarious political path along which he is walking and the fateful consequences of any misstep. If war erupts anew, the canal would be quickly blocked. A prolonged deadlock in peace talks could eventually also spell the end of Arab moderation and possibly of Anwar Sadat as well. Balancing this threat, however, is a conclusion that Sadat reached long ago. The 1973 war may have restored Arab pride (even though, after initial successes, the Arab armies took a beating), but in the end peace is necessary to help Egypt's stumbling economy. Unless...
...king's enlightened path is always blocked by problems. One of them is a movable castle full of French knights who defend their ramparts by shouting down intolerable sexual insults and pelting would-be attackers with a hail of dead farm animals-most unchivalrous. Another obstacle is a Black Knight of uncompromising combativeness; after Arthur has severed all four of his limbs, the knight perversely insists on trying to bite the king on the ankle. Then there are the guardians of a sacred forest who demand a tribute of shrubbery -something with "a nice layered effect"-before allowing Arthur...
Second Wooing. But after seven years with Rockwell, Booth, 52, was at a crossroads. He had resigned as a senior vice president, director and member of the executive committee at Rockwell, where the chief executive was only two years older than he. "I didn't see a clear path to the top," Booth says. So when United Brands asked him a second time to head the company, he agreed, and last week was elected president...