Word: sayed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...early to say what's going to happen in the negotiations," Polimeno says. "We might not have any problems...
...escape to France, at the cost of a tacit bargain with the police to shun political activity, demonstrates the emotional cost of such vigilance. Running to the warmth and decadence of a small French village, she seeks out her father's first wife, Katya, to learn how to say no to the Future. Katya left Lionel and South Africa's demands, seeking refuge in France. She tells Rosa...
SOME PEOPLE WOULD CALL Robert Shaplen brave. Others would say that he is just plain crazy. Anybody who attempts to summarize 30 years of modern Asian history in a single volume is probably a little of both. A Turning Wheel is Shaplen's magnum opus, an enormous work on his years as a correspondent in Asia. Like any sweeeping work, it has its ups and downs. If Shaplen's book is flawed by the sheer breadth of his topic, it is held together by the author's personal approach. But A Turning Wheel is also a strangely unfulfilling work, copious...
Some accounts say Helms threatened to spill every dark secret he could dredge up if he were brought to trial; Powers ignores this scenario. In any case, in 1977 Helms' lawyers reached a deal with Attorney General Griffin Bell that allowed him (in exchange for a plea of nolo contendre) to escape with a suspended two-year jail term, a $2,000 fine paid by sympathetic colleagues, and his federal pension intact...
...interest in participating in a forum of that sort," huffed Michael L. Walzer, professor of Government. And that was that. But Gregory Nagy, professor of Greek and Latin, his wife giggling in the background, spluttered, "I don't read in the bathroom. I have so many things to say...This one short-circuits me completely," he gurgled, collapsing in a fit of hysterical laughter...