Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rounds of ammunition at the car from point blank range. The murderers disappear into the night, leaving behind a smoking wreck of shattered glass, blood and the dead bodies of Dulla Chiesa and his wife. She is hit despite the General's pathetic efforts to shield her from the path of the on coming bullets. The ferocity of the attack surprises even the Italian tabloids the next day; usually the Mafia, following a perverse ancient code of honor, spares the spouse. This time, necessity overrules tradition...
...sister. If he wore long pants, he would go with the men, whom the Nazis often kept alive as workers. She dressed him in long pants and by doing so saved his life. It was the first in a string of miraculous and intuitive acts that marked his path to survival. Pisar never saw his mother or sister again...
...Kremlin leader surprised everyone with his appearance. Pale and looking far older than in his official portraits, Andropov walked with a slow, distinctive gait. He put each leg forward cautiously, his head down as if he were studying the design on the red carpet laid in his path. One guest, a Briton, whispered, "Why, he can hardly see!" Indeed, as Andropov raised his head to face the waiting foreign envoys, his thick bifocal glasses betrayed a vision problem that seemed to explain the stooped, hesitant walk...
Although Bok agrees with Giamatti's general stance on college athletics, he hasn't taken such a hard lining stance. He feels that "what we retrying to do is walk a middle path between the big athletics powers with all the abuses that that entails, of schools like Swarthmore or Cal Tech where athletics is simply on a lower level of intercollegiate play. "Bok thinks that Harvard has so far followed this path and is guarded fairly well against the pressure of big-time college sports...
...What we're trying to do is walk a middle path between the big athletic powers with all the abuses that entails..." --President...