Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...events continue on their present path, eventually the Communists will have all the world's land and we will have all the world's people...
...life. Said Surgeon Jeff Towles, who has had extensive experience with gunshot wounds: "There was an explosive effect like nothing I've ever seen before." He said that Jordan would have been killed if the angle of the first shot had been a centimeter different from its actual path. After surgery Jordan was listed in serious but stable condition in the hospital's intensive-care ward...
When a howling white mob tried to prevent Charlayne Hunter from entering the hitherto segregated University of Georgia in 1961, a broad-shouldered black cleared a path for her by using his 6-ft. 4½-in. body as a battering ram. He was a young (25) law clerk named Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr. Since then Jordan has moderated his tactics, but he has kept on pushing just as forcefully for black rights and equal opportunity. At the same time, he has become, in the words of Mitchell Sviridoff, a vice president of the Ford Foundation, "one of the great...
...characters is involved. The pulse beat of the play, its sturdy, unfaltering heart, resides in three clearly autobiographical figures. The narrator-hero Lee (Peter Evans) is the young Miller on an ardent quest of selfdiscovery. His father Moe (John Randolph) is a proud man who has followed the immigrant path to affluence, only to suffer the humiliating descent to penury. Miller has always been an astute observer of how a man's dignity is emasculated when he loses his economic self-respect, and Ran dolph is shatteringly poignant in this role...
...Leslie Greis will not spend next year in an air-conditioned office piling up practical experience on the path to business school. Instead, she will traipse the Florida fairways, forsaking the boardroom for the putting green, at least for the time being...