Word: sparrows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lowell House courtyard, Sophie Sparrow '82 and Collette Creppel '82 staged a "St. Nicholas Day celebration in sculpture and dance." Dancers dressed in red and yellow spun against the background of snow sculpture to the tune of saxophones and a drum...
...than to move in with Margaret Mary for mutual care and companionship. With aloof hauteur, the widow indicates, as only Hepburn could, that Cara is non-U. Selfish, highhanded, unfeeling, Margaret Mary takes in a different roommate. Robin Bird (Regina Baff), a woman of about 30, is a Brooklyn sparrow with a broken wing. She has been wounded by her husband, who divorced her to turn homosexual. Robin brings out the possessive mother-tyrant in the widow, but in return Margaret Mary goads her into staking a personal claim on life...
...year congressional career in 1958; in Chevy Chase, Md. After his defeat, Hays filled posts in the White House and State Department under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Of his role in trying to resolve the confrontation at Little Rock, Hays once said: "I felt like the sparrow that flew into the badminton game...
...control drainage canals, thus further reducing the area's ability to clean and store water. Beyond this, environmentalists point out, development will imperil the East Everglades as a feeding and breeding ground for wildlife in the neighboring national park, home of such endangered species as the Cape Sable sparrow and the Florida panther...
...death and destruction were grim enough, but could have been much worse. A battery of Sidewinder and Sparrow missiles might have been set off, or the crashed plane could have been an A-6 Intruder loaded with heavy ordnance. The ship's enormous elevator portal could have been open, making the ship's lower levels and hundreds more men vulnerable to the fireballs from above. As it turned out, the Nimitz, which cost $2 billion to buiid, sustained only superficial damage. The nuclear reactor -housed several steel-reinforced levels below-was never at risk...