Word: reads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About halfway through the 90-minute interview in Tobruk, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was interrupted by a military aide who handed him a note. The revolutionary who heads Libya's government paused in his bitter denunciation of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty just long enough to read the message. Then he smiled wanly, shook his head and waved the aide away with the back of his hand. The note informed Gaddafi that live TV coverage of the White House signing ceremony was beginning in the next room. Gaddafi clearly preferred to talk about the treaty rather than join his staff...
Robert Evans, dean of Brandies College, read a statement from the trustees concerning possible shareholder action in future stock purchases...
...Approximately 200 people rushed into the building" after Evans read the statement, Kemp said...
...time you read this a sleepy Harvard baseball squad will have gathered at Dillon Field House at 7 a.m. on its way to Logan airport to catch the 8:45 plane to Newark. From there, they will bus to Princeton where both teams will open their Eastern League seasons...
Levenson's later work, though often highly praised, remained a focus for controversy, some of which persists in scholarly journals today. The implications of his method and vision, what he expected of the historian placed heavy demands on those who wrote (and read) history, demands that became clearer as he completed his largest work, Confucian China and its Modern Fate...