Word: soled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also her sole challenger in 1984, when she won her fifth consecutive term as a state representative...
More than a year passed before the "schoale" 's appointed overseers bought the farmhouse, surrounded it with a six-foot fence, planted 30 apple trees and turned over the whole establishment to its first master and sole teacher, Nathaniel Eaton. A poor choice. Though Eaton was a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, he had a vile temper, and his frugal wife apparently served the twelve students mackerel "with all their guts in them" and hasty pudding spiced with goat droppings. When Eaton finally attacked an assistant with a walnut club "big enough to have killed a horse," he was hauled...
After a meal that is to include cream of carrot soup, cold filet of sole, fruit compote, and champagne toasts, Shultz will return to his farm, an aide said...
...Wright's sole television experience is the three years he spent as president of Cox Cable Communications starting in 1980. A lawyer by training, Wright began working for GE in 1969. He has been a close Welch ally since 1973, when he joined the GE plastics group that Welch then headed. Wright is said to have been a major behind-the-scenes force in organizing the merger of GE and RCA. His background suggests a distinct change from the relaxed management style and well-established Hollywood connections of Tinker, who moved the network from the ratings basement...
...labor unions in Johannesburg were forbidden to hold any indoor meetings, their outdoor meetings having already been banned in June. An immediate storm of protest broke loose, the kind that usually inspires the Pretoria government to dig in its heels. Instead, two days later, the Bureau for Information, the sole official outlet of news on the emergency, announced that the government was making an about-face. "Errors" had been made in the original order, the statement said, and the ban on indoor meetings did not apply to labor unions...