Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Caputo insisted that the unexpectedly close vote "definitely was a signal" to Seoul to cooperate in the influence-peddling investigation. But there was no sign that the Koreans would read it that way-or should. The White House does not want to threaten to reduce or eliminate aid. The decision to start pulling out part of America's 33,000 ground troops from South Korea by next year has bothered the U.S.'s other Asian allies, notably Japan. Also, the Koreans still have plenty of friends in Congress. In another move last week, the House decided...
...least a few Chinese dissenters have gone much further in rejecting Mao's posthumous influence. One sign: novels and short stories dealing with forbidden themes are now being clandestinely circulated among friends in manuscript form. One such novel is entitled Ah Hsia, the name of its heroine-a hapless working girl who has been ravished by her factory's party boss. Another underground story, The Hunan River Runs Red, tells of a high-living party official whose son drowns himself out of disgust with his father's profligacy and privileged life. An illicit "yellow book"-Chinese slang...
Willie's large Austin coterie hopes some of this success rubs off. Already a dozen local performers have signed recording contracts, and the migration of musicians into Austin continues. It all seems a long way from Luckenbach. Or at least the old Luckenbach. These days the town is a thriving weekend tourist spot, which does brisk business in T shirts and bumper stickers. Cardboard NO PARKING signs lean against the trees; nothing is nailed down because the nails, like the signs, have been taken by tourists. Each week a couple of weddings are performed under the big cypress tree...
...must study an object a long tune," Matisse remarked in 1951, "to know what its sign is." The signs he developed in the cut-outs are a testament to his gift for preserving the ebullience of nature in a medium that naturally moved toward decorative formality...
Registration will begin at 9 a.m. when the brawny and bronzed students enter the dim recesses of Mem Hall to sign dotted lines and collect course catalogues and bursar's cards crucial to their new year at Harvard...