Word: sorted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...does not really have to prove its mettle by maintaining "in perpetuity" an achievement of the steam age. Moreover, in adjusting to a changing situation and sharing its accomplishments with the rest of the world, the nation demonstrates skills and ingenuity of a different but no less vital sort. In that sense, the Panama Canal will always be American...
...visit to England in June, Chip Carter apparently visited the wrong ancestral village, Christchurch, which is about 100 miles southwest of King's Langley.) In any event, Carter's onetime countrymen are delighted to find that the President of the U.S. is to the manor born, sort of. Says Brooks-Baker: "The English always wanted Carter to be an aristocrat...
...event, Elizabeth used her visit to note a different sort of anniversary. A year ago last week, Catholics Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan founded the so-called Peace People's Movement, which has attracted mass support from both Catholics and Protestants. The Queen pointedly invited the two women to a reception aboard the Britannia. Other royal events: a slow cruise on the floodlit yacht up the coast, which was crowded with onlookers, and an investiture ceremony at Hillsborough Castle at which she bestowed honors on 18 of her subjects...
...feels guilty, something of a crosspatch, for raising even a minor caveat about this engaging, low-key, low-budget movie, full of nice people, bouncy car chases, vroomy racing sequences. Scott is played with a sort of quizzical intelligence by Richard Pryor in a performance very different from his equally effective role as the jivey thief in Silver Streak. There is about Pryor, and the picture as a whole, both earnestness and the sense to throw it away; though if you stop to think, Scott's career-even if it was not precisely as set forth in the film...
...long financially troubled women's college near White Plains, N.Y. -sold its 55-acre campus out from under some 300 students. But rather than die outright or be absorbed by burgeoning Pace University, which had bought the facility for its nearby Westchester campus, homeless Briarcliff proposed a desperate sort of scholastic piggyback. It hoped to share its remaining faculty and students with yet another small, private and financially strapped women's college: Bennett, a two-year junior college with 230 students. Under the tentative plan, Briarcliff would attract many of its undergraduates to Bennett's underpopulated Millbrook...