Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...racist South Africa. South African forces fighting alongside FNLA/UNITA have penetrated 200 miles into Angolan territory. And these forces aim to protect South African investments in Angola, and to eliminate black Namibian revolutionaries operating from Angolan bases. But more importantly, South Africa seeks to prevent the formation of a ring of hostile black states on her borders. Western support for FNLA/UNITA thus contributes directly to the preservation of apartheid in South Africa, a system from which many American firms profit...
Little clues-the neatness with which the noose was tied, an error in the cost of secondhand motorcycles-slowly indicate the dead man's connection with a drug ring. Respected citizens become criminal suspects, while the true murderer seems guilty only of an act of reason. In the end, just desserts are separated from legal justice. Van de Wetering, writing with pace, freshness and laconic precision, clearly relishes the ironies. Nor is he done with them. Happily, he promises to bring back the appealing De Grier and Grijpstra in sequels to confront more of life's mysteries...
...ecumenical ceremony was performed by Rabbi Sumner Z. Kaplan and Rev. Michael Groden. The single-ring service included several quotations from the Bible in addition to writings by the couple...
Throw left and right and tertium quid o'er--Ring in Harvard's happy Thermidor. With a wreath to the Left and a wreath to the Right, Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night...
...Ring in Friedman, ring in Hayek-- It's your road to serfdom, you should like...