Word: ru
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...money. In his diary, according to King's testimony, the pornographer wrote "Liz [a pet name for Bowden]-$6,000," then added that a rifle had been purchased. In one of Thevis' datebooks, there is an entry on Oct. 25, the day of the Underbill murder: "RU killed." A diary also showed that the balding pornographer had been scheduled to get a hair transplant the day after the ambush but had called...
Monet moved to Giverny at the mid-point of his life, in 1883; seven years later he was able to buy the house and start acquiring parcels of land along the junction of the Ru and the Epte, two tributaries of the nearby Seine. By 1926, when Monet-old, nearly blind, and as close to being a national hero as any French artist has ever been in his own lifetime-eventually died, the garden had become one of the most complete environmental expressions of a man's taste ever to be constructed. Monet created his own motif in order...
...often laments rat-pack reporting, the result of too many people and cameras covering the same obvious event. This phenomenon does explain many of the capital's transient curiosities, hasty judgments and fast-fading enthusiasms. But the real tone o Washington opinion is set by those commentators and ru-rninators who no longer have to join the pack, who write from their studies, travel the Georgetown dinner circuit and can get through on the phone to anyone who counts. They can report what "Washington" thinks (or even, as James Reston once did, what "a bone-weary Washington" thinks...
...democracy. Spain's leftists, who had urged abstention, coaxed 22.5% of the voters into staying away from the polls. Diehard Franquistas, who viewed the reform as "the antechamber of Communism," were thoroughly repudiated; only 2.6% of the voters cast opposing ballots. "The people," said Christian Democratic Leader Joaquin Ruíz-Giménez, "are not for a return to formulas that have died forever...
...breath, brushed a small, many-legged Arab off my sleeves and went down to unpack." Most of the other lines, though, could have been written for Groucho Marx and perhaps were: "I was tempted to fling him a lakh of rupees with a princely gesture. Not knowing how many ru pees there were to a lakh, though, I had to content myself with the princely gesture...