Word: rashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When it rains, it pours, and by mid-December she was also plagued by stress fractures in her left tibia. These two injuries were just the beginning of a rash of nagging injuries which always recurred just as she was ready to resume serious training...
...kind style and sarcastic commentary on life in the U.S.--will come away from Jailbird more than satisfied. And if the reader hails from within Harvard's ivy-covered walls, the sense of fulfillment will no doubt prove even more complete--Jailbird is not just another of the current rash of "life after Harvard" novels. Instead, it clearly portrays the vast dichotomy between the way the world views Harvard graduates and the way Harvard graduates view themselves. "Harvard," as Vonnegut says plainly, "is all through this book...
...three dancers who had defected on the troupe's U.S. tour last month, than Soviet prestige was hit by an even more bruising blow: the defection in Switzerland last week of Figure Skating Champions Oleg Protopopov, 47, and Ludmila Belousova, 43. So alarmed were Soviet officials over the rash of recent defections that they canceled a scheduled 28-concert U.S. tour by the Moscow State Symphony. Before the drastic decision was made, the orchestra's U.S. booking agent, Samuel Niefeld, was suddenly summoned to Moscow. Niefeld was reportedly asked to give "guarantees" that there would be no defections...
Soviet officials are now fearful that the rash of defections that began with the Bolshoi could become an epidemic among the hundreds of athletes who will soon go abroad for international pre-Olympic competitions. Last week party officials were preparing to give prospective travelers special indoctrination lectures. A more forceful method of ensuring loyalty is in store for eleven Soviet boxers who are scheduled to compete in the World Cup Championship matches at New York City's Madison Square Garden this month. Instead of two trainers, as is customary, 18 security men in the guise of coaches will literally...
Speaking on the White House lawn, Mubarak denounced the policy change as a "rash" attempt to "usurp the rights of Palestinian people in their country and on their land." A day later, State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter lambasted the Israeli policy as "contrary to the spirit and intent" of the Camp David accord...