Word: robin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story back-lot mythic. Spartacus led his slave army out of the Cammarata hills to fight the Romans. A skeleton dug out of the rocky soil is said to have belonged to one of Hannibal's elephants. The novel's hero, Turi Guiliano, is a Latin Robin Hood who can recite the Song of Roland and the basic guerrilla manual with matching ease. When he is not slipping into Montelepre for his mother's cooking and the attractions of a young widow, Turi muses under starry skies: "He no longer doubted that he had some magnificent destiny...
...small cities without any scheduled airline service. Many of those familiar with PBA expressed faith in the company. Said Isidore Eisner, manager of the New Bedford, Mass., Municipal Airport: "PBA has a proud and good reputation." Most PBA employees felt that the FAA action had been too drastic. Said Robin Hamilton, who sells charter flights for the airline: "I've never had one minute's hesitation jumping on one of our planes. This is the best job I ever...
Playing in pain from injuries that have plagued her for several months, sophomore Robin Boss claimed the Northeast regional of the Intercollegiate Tennis Coaches Association (HCA) at Penn Sunday...
...that her illness, Hodgkin's disease, would some day cause her to leave Alaska and would eventually take her life. In the early spring she wrote in her journal, "I've never seen such a March in my life. The only thing I heard yesterday was a robin. Sometimes I sit on a stump and listen to the silence...
...rest were shoehorned in everywhere from the gym, where ten to 20 students checked in every night in the first few weeks for an issue of bedding, to converted dormitory lounges with beds trundled in to create communal pads. "I was kind of bummed out about it," says Freshman Robin Chase. "But it's pretty nice, they gave us a nice space...