Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson Aquamen failed to derail Brown on its path to an eighth straight regional title, but staved off a spirited challenge by MIT to take the second of two New England seeds in next weekend's Eastern Championship in Indianapolis...
...began to hound him in an effort to drive him into exile. In 1980, Aksyonov and his wife Maya succumbed to pressure and left the Soviet Union. His citizenship was then taken away by the Supreme Soviet, and the Literary Gazette announced that he had chosen "the path of betrayal to the motherland...
...leaders to demonstrate that Peking can't be taken for granted, that China has other places to turn to. Let's keep the problem on the back burner and not go off on new arms sales [to Taiwan] at least so long as Peking continues down the path of 'peacefully resolving' the issue. I think it will be resolved subtly. The Chinese know they need a vital, economically strong Taiwan and Hong Kong too. Both, I think, may eventually end up in some sort of a loose federation or commonwealth with the People's Republic...
This is the direction of George Mills, Elkin's longest, most complex novel. The burdens of the author's previous fictions are given full weight. The narrative path is steep, circuitous and mined with disease and humiliations. The voices of third and first persons mingle, and time runs in either direction. In the present, a terminal patient named Judith Glazer beleaguers family and friends with hostile honesty and acrid humor: "Neither will I be wired to any of those medical busy-boxes to extend for one damned minute what only a fool would call my life. If Jesus...
Echoing a concern voiced by several law students, Ron Friedman said. "People say they take the path of least resistance and end up in corporate law. But the system is designed to direct you to corporate law. It as easy as joining the army...