Word: ranged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Joan Samson's first novel owes its resonance to Shirley Jackson's American-gothic short story The Lottery, the book tends to provoke rather than frighten. The author's poetic imagery highlights the New England scene and characters: "Beneath the high wind, a tongue of water rang against the scoured stones like the wooden clapper in a bell, warning that they were slippery." The Auctioneer becomes less a tale of suspense than a parable of politics. The open questions it poses are as old as society itself: What is the nature of power? What makes people cede...
With that thought for incentive, Harvard came alive for three goals in the second period to take the lead, while Petrovek deflected the six Husky shots that came his way. Dave Bell got things going at 1:42, winding up for one of his famous slappers at point blank range. The shot rang off the crossbar over goalie Jim Bowman's right shoulder...
Eventually a plenary session of the National People's Congress will have to be held to designate Teng the new Premier. Similarly, there will have to be a Politburo meeting to elect party Vice Chairmen to replace both Chou and another top leader, Rang Sheng, who died one month ago. A strong candidate is Chang Chun-chiao, 63, the onetime Shanghai radical, who has decided to cooperate with the moderates...
...sake of Morocco." For several minutes, the three Moroccans carried on a loud argument with their prisoner. Then one of them said: "Let's finish this comedy. You were sentenced to death in Morocco. Now you're going to get it." At that a shot rang out and Ben Barka fell dying. He was hastily buried at the villa. Afterward, Oufkir flew to Switzerland for his family visit and the other officials returned by roundabout routes to Morocco. According to TIME'S sources, two of the agents present at the murder returned to France and supervised...
...Depression) after the 1963 suicide of her husband Philip. Since then, she has become one of the most powerful women in America-and one of the best, toughest publishers in the field. Her Washington Post Co., which includes Newsweek, six broadcast stations and 49% of a Canadian paper mill, rang up revenues of $287 million last year...