Word: spate
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...Italy a spate of bombings in several cities confirmed that terrorists there were still on the loose. A 46-year-old foreman at the Lancia automobile plant in Turin was fatally wounded by Red Brigades assassins. Next day, Ippolito Bestonso, 66, an Alfa Romeo executive, was "kneecapped" outside his home in Milan by three youths who fired six bullets into his legs. In no hurry to flee, they followed up the shooting by handcuffing their victim and hanging a poster bearing the red star symbol of the Red Brigades around his neck...
Scientists are not the only ones smitten by black-hole fever. The parcels of nothingness are a favorite topic on the lecture circuit. They bring out record crowds for planetarium shows, and they have lately been the theme of a spate of books. In the popular lexicon, the term black hole once suggested only the legendary hellish cell in Calcutta in which British prisoners were held by an 18th century Indian nawab. Now it has become an immediately recognizable catchword for a different kind of darkness. Says one young astrophysicist...
...issue is less complicated than some members of the Harvard Corporation would make it seem. The University has consumed more than five months in a spate of correspondence, largely cosmetic open hearings, reports and committee meetings. These actions have repeatedly brought forth the same basic set of facts to the Corporation. The University's indecisiveness while hundreds of South African blacks face arbitrary imprisonment or even death by starvation demonstrates that the Corporation is either seriously, if honestly, misguided, or is engaged in a censurable policy of delay and obfuscation...
...befits a society of laws, has always been a litigious land. But the past quarter-century has brought a particularly explosive burst of growth in the legal industry. Since the mid-1950s the courts have discovered a spate of new constitutional rights, protections and entitlements for whole groups of people?for example, disenfranchised voters, women, Latins, prisoners, children, mental patients. Countless others, emboldened by seven-figure awards in personal injury suits, have gone to court in quest of what San Francisco Defense Lawyer Scott Conley sardonically calls the "pot of gold at the end of every whiplash." At the same...
...Near You: Dylan was supposed to hand out only three interviews--to hand out any interview at all was regarded by Dylan-watchers as phenomenal, a sign of instability within the regime--to Rolling Stone, New Times, and to John Rockwell of The New York Times. But soon a spate of interviews appeared--in Playboy, in lots of places--and to Dylan-watchers it indicated panic in Malibu. It did not bode well for Renaldo and Clara. For the first time, Dylan was downright solicitous of interviewers, especially the simpering Jonathan Cott of Rolling Stone. It seemed Dylan only wanted...