Word: raring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sexist Conspiracy. Claudia defied tradition by pressing charges and demanding a rare public trial. Feminists promptly took up Claudia's case and Attorney Tina Lagostena Bassi agreed to represent her. Said Claudia: "Le femministe, they're the ones who have given me the strength to fight." When the trial opened, Claudia burst into tears at the sight of the seven sullen youths in the dock. She testified that she had received threats warning her not to press the case. Five days later, she was found lying semiconscious by a roadside on the outskirts of Rome. She told police...
...decidedly fitting, for the occasion was the formal opening of the Yale Center for British Art, a four-story chest of art treasures donated by Mellon, 69, class of '29. The collection contains more than 1,700 paintings, 5,000 prints, 7,000 drawings and 20,000 rare books, and it is valued at close to $200 million. It ranges from the bejeweled, beribboned portraits of the Elizabethan period onward to the nobly blooded horses of George Stubbs. Its special strength lies in the richest period of British art, the years between the birth of Hogarth...
...Rare Whimsy. The commission contends that it has public support for at least some of its findings. Of 3,000 people questioned in an A.C. Nielsen Co. survey that it commissioned, 79.5% were willing to give up Saturday mail delivery to keep costs down. The public, the survey found, is most interested in the dependability of mail delivery. The commission will throw in one palliative in its report to Congress: a recommendation that the Postal Service close no more post offices unless there is a vacancy in the postmastership, "or the Army Corps of Engineers floods the area" - a rare...
...this, Stover's first Boston concert since his trek south, be prepared for his lightning picking, a little banjo frailing and some rare Stover guitar-flatpicking. Tickets are $4, kids under 12 free; call 492-0415 for more info. Coffee and punch served free, bring some home-baked munchies and an instrument for the after-show pickin' party...
...Crimson linksters parlayed strong rounds from the bottom players on their ladder to swamp MIT and Bates yesterday in a rare match play format at the Brae Burn Country Club in West Newton...