Word: recounting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NUMBERED among the 87 men who sailed for Cuba in 1956. At first, his primary duty was to attend to the wounded among the group; when the original force was whittled down to ten men, he had to take up the gun. Che would recount later that he had been carrying two packs when his column came under ambush. He had a decision to make, as his asthma would allow him to run with only one. He laid down the pack full of medicines and surgical supplies to run with the one filled with vital ammunition. From then...
...printing of detailed minutes of the meetings. The minutes currently only recount the general order of items discussed, making no attempt to record what each participant says. Savage believes representatives who do miss meetings should be able to find out what happened...
Steinbeck only partially succeeded in bringing Arthur to the audience he claims he wrote for: "those of today impatient with the difficulties of Malory's spelling and use of archaic words." Throughout The Acts Steinbeck searches for a voice in which to recount the stories; he finds several, none of which are adequate in themselves, no two of which mesh harmoniously on the page. The result is a composite and uneven piece of work, by turns news analysis, history, psychological explanation, novel, poetry and myth. Malory managed to weave these threads together, but Steinbeck hasn...
Heterosexual escapades also intrigued Hoover. One file requires 50 pages to recount the affairs of a member of Congress-name deleted-between 1960 and 1963. Another report indicates that FBI agents stalked a Congressman one night as he "picked up a Negro female at a low-class night spot and tried to take her to a tourist home." On the way, the report continues, he was "followed by two Negro males who assaulted him." There is no indication that the agents tried to stop the assault...
...Look, Betty," he pleaded. "Even if they don't give us the recount on the Brown game, we can still hope for a miracle. There are still a few precincts that are too close to call. If we can win in Pennsylvania and then take those people from New Haven, we've got a chance. There's no reason to think that the Peanut will win in New Hampshire this weekend...