Word: sole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Berlin was no longer the sole danger point. In Washington's "Crisis Center," State Department intelligence experts kept a weather eye on the rain in Laos, where the monsoon-and perhaps an uneasy truce-will end later this month. From the stalled peace talks in Geneva, roving Ambassador Averell Harriman flew to Southeast Asia in an all-but-hopeless effort to establish accord with Sovietsupported Prince Souvanna Phouma, Laos' prospective Premier...
...junior at Amherst. During the summers, Goldberg installed his children and his wife Dorothy, a former social worker and an abstractionist painter, in a two-room cabin on the shores of Lake Michigan; he showed up on Friday nights laden with cartons of Chinese food. Goldberg appointed himself sole arbitrator of family disputes, once ruled that Barbara could not wear lipstick until she was 14. Such decisions were not always popular-and on at least one occasion, the kids picketed the house with signs that read DADDY UNFAIR...
...France's Fifth Republic. The real responsibility, most Frenchmen suspected, must lie elsewhere. For its part, the S.A.O. haughtily denied complicity. Paris newspaper offices received a crude mimeographed declaration headed, "September 12, Somewhere in France"; it insisted that the attempt was "not ordered by our headquarters for the sole reason that our organization is not in readiness to take power in Metropolitan France." But few doubted that it was the intention of the S.A.O.'s thou sands of bitter extremist members to destroy Charles de Gaulle, making way for a leader who would defend France's hold...
...said. "You don't know if it is present, past, or even future." But he is much more than a sidewalk spieler. He is a grounded artist, seeking new ways to find what he has called "the mass audience which is weary of explanatory scenes, dialogue whose sole purpose is 'to keep the action going,' and the all too obvious sequence of shots 'logically' strung together...
Grave Ghost. The baron returns, some years later, to leave one last raffish memento. But with his death of a heart at tack, melodrama begins smothering the life of Author Denti di Pirajno's novel. At novel's end, Ippolita is not only the sole mistress, but also the greatest monster of the House of Raugeo...