Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ended the affair when he learned that she was with child. She then swore revenge and celibacy, and her vow strengthened as she charted his career as a politician who came out against abortion. When she informs him that the hospital has a special committee which will consider his request for termination of the pregnancy, he promises that, given a second chance, he'll be more sympathetic to her cause. He then delivers the line that best captures the theme of the play and the crux of the abortion issue: "For the first time I'm in a position...
Several student members of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) have decided to request information from other universities about their alternative meal plans, because the students are skeptical about figures the Food Services has supplied to CHUL, members of the group said yesterday...
...during the first delicate days of talks with Egypt, about reports of new Israeli settlements in the Sinai, he answered: "What do you want? I am only responsible for Israel's security, not its sanity." Early in March, when he was in Washington negotiating yet another big Israeli request for U.S. arms ($13.5 billion worth over the next nine years), he got into a widely reported transoceanic squabble with his boss; he told Begin that he would resign if Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon was allowed to proceed with work on some new settlements on the West Bank against...
...Moro's kidnaping. But they made the most of it, shouting to the courtroom, "Moro is in the hands of the proletariat, and he will be tried. Long live the Red Brigades!" The defendants refused to cooperate with their court-appointed counsel, but Judge Guido Barbaro rejected a request that the prisoners be allowed to represent themselves. Having resolved the legal ruckus, the court ordered the trial to resume again this week...
...same magazine. The story contained a gratuitous reference to "poor Scott Fitzgerald" and that famous line from The Rich Boy, "The very rich are different from you and me." The reply is often assumed to have been Hemingway's: "Yes they have more money." At Fitzgerald's request, his name was deleted and "Julian" substituted in later editions of the story. But the impression lingered, and still does, that Fitzgerald had an indiscriminating reverence for the wealthy...