Word: pittinger
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The Latin kingdom founded by the Crusaders lasted scarcely a century. Recaptured by the Saracen King Saladin in 1187, Jerusalem remained in Moslem hands, except for a brief 15-year Christian reconquest, until World War I. The long sleep under Islam brought little peace, however, as Moslems battled for Jerusalem...
Besides pitting Bruhn and Nureyev against each other, the two companies squared off with competing full-length versions of the seemingly inexhaustible classic, Swan Lake. Here the Americans scored an ironic coup, for their production was staged by a premier danseur of the Royal Ballet, David Blair. By going back...
Obvious Need. OEO officials believe that the changes-particularly the one limiting participating of the poor on local boards-will reduce the program's value as a tool for "trying, testing and learning." Even so, they are unlikely to silence opposition from Republicans or Southern Democrats who accuse poverty...
Before then, Builder Zingone plans to head-quite literally-for the hills. Pitting pragmatism against civic pride, he is planning a residential center in the Tuscan highlands outside Florence on the theory that "after the floods last fall, Florentines would welcome a place to live safe up in the hills...
To defend himself, Freedman is publishing his lecture in the forthcoming Michigan Law Review. He was not prescribing perjury, he says, he was merely discussing conflicts in the U.S. adversary system. In theory, that system produces truth and justice by pitting lawyers in a contest before neutral judges and juries...