Word: portions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does not know, or does not care to know, is that she is strangling the German shepherd puppy leashed beside her. The dog would be howling if it had the freedom to breathe. Yet the woman looks handsome, respectable, prosperous; she seems to be without worries or obligations. Her portion of the page is in order and under control...
...following year he began his campaign to expel from Uganda 55,000 Indians and Pakistanis, most of them small businessmen and shopkeepers who constituted the most stable portion of Ugandan society. Three years later, when a British resident of Uganda, Denis Hills, called Amin a "village tyrant" in an unpublished manuscript, Big Daddy threatened to execute him by firing squad but eventually released him after James Callaghan, then Britain's Foreign Secretary, flew to Uganda at Amin's insistence to negotiate for Hills' life...
...President Carter's elimination of 19 water development projects from the fiscal 1978 budget. What bothered Arizonans most was that the biggest of these canceled undertakings was the $1.6 billion Central Arizona Project, which was scheduled to bring water from the Colorado River to the parched southern portion of the state by 1985. "Without CAP," said Wes Steiner, executive director of the state's water commission, "all agricultural production in Arizona would have to stop." Warned a pecan and cotton grower, Keith Walden: "Tucson will be covered up with sand and become a ghost town within a hundred...
Much of the credit for this achievement should go to Fuller who, by directing his sophisticated, well-constructed piece with the accent on style and what he terms "the very, very small things," like inflection and timing, has put the final polish on the play himself. But a big portion of the applause should also go to Gerald Moshell, the Kirkland House music tutor and Fuller's partner in this crime, who has composed a score so suited to the lyrics in mood and meter that, as Fuller himself has said, "the words and music seem to have something...
Speedy Ellen Hart was the key to the Crimson attack in the closing portion of the game. Playing aggressively as the "chaser" in Harvard's zone defense (she replaced Martineau), Hart bagged five steals down the stretch and converted three of them into breakaway layups...