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Word: sierras (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apartment. He is only reminded of his dead mother by a chance conversation overheard in a pub. "Peter can talk about nothing," a girl complains about her absent boy friend, "but- the Ashes."* The urn is recovered, but not before Auntie's servant (and lover), an enterprising Sierra Leone black named Wordsworth, has emptied Mother out and replaced her with some hot pot. The police get into the act and the chase runs from London to Paris to Istanbul, and finally to Paraguay. Greene is not only putting the reader on. He is putting himself on. We are back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hamlet's Aunt | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

...addition, volunteers will distribute literature and circulate petitions for specific legislation- although the Conservation Club has not yet determined the exact content of the petition. Commoner will conduct a seminar, and the Conservation Club will show films loaned by the Sierra Club and the Audubon Society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conservationists Plan to Teach- In On Problems of the Environment | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

...Sierra Madre, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 12, 1970 | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

...unavailability of many Bogart films, the Brattle will be able to present only two pictures, The African Queen and Beat the Devil . In past years Harvard audiences could view 17 or 18 Bogey movies, including such all-time greats as Casablanca, High Sierra, and The Maltese Falcon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Reading Period Without Bogey | 1/8/1970 | See Source »

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