Word: rying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Franco-British grocery and newspaper baron Sir James Goldsmith bought the French weekly L'Express in 1977, he promised to leave editorial policy in the practiced hands of Editorial Director Philippe Grumbach whose center-right leanings contributed to the magazine's close ties to President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. But a year later, says Grumbach, when it looked as if a Socialist-Communist coalition might come to power (it did not), Goldsmith began shopping for an editor more sympathetic to the left. Grumbach was kicked upstairs into an executive job sans power, secretary or office...
Speaking for his organization, he said, "Our conception of human rights does not include protection for the privileged. It is ry to disturb their interests in order to redress the injustices against the bulk of the population on the African continent...
Estranged parents and children al ways reunite around an elder's death bed; newborn babies are always held up to a starry sky in emulation of Kunta Kinte's original African ritual. The sto ry's backbone and much of its meaning can be found in the loving relationships of Haley's grandparents (Stan Shaw and Bever-Leigh Banfield) and parents (Do rian Harewood and Irene Cara). Since these ancestors, unlike those of Roots 1, were never slaves, Roots 11 is able to dramatize normal black middle-class life - at home, work, college...
...this case, the Berlin Wall qualifies for the role. If Curtis Cate's richly detailed, gripping history has a villain, however, it lacks a hero. For the author, a longtime commentator on European affairs and a biographer of George Sand and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, strongly implies that the Wall would never have been built if the Western Allies had shown a little more sophistication and a little less fear...
...tries to cover up the killing; his plan, an elaborate tangle of implausibility, is to make it look as if the academy's superintendent had ordered the coverup. That done, Hedges can take over as the supe of what cadets call "Woo Poo." But Hedges reck ons without Ry Slaight, a second-class man who stumbles upon the truth and then besieges it for nearly 500 pages, like Grant trying to take Richmond...