Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the Wichita vote, teen-agers in pickup trucks shouted obscenities outside the Bus Station, a local gay club. But conservative Baptist leaders of Concerned Citizens carefully pointed out that they sought no persecution of homosexuals...
...after another, a minute apart, the slalom contestants were launched by the starters. The downriver course began just above the railroad station where Teddy Roosevelt happened to be in 1901 when he learned that William McKinley had been assassinated and he was about to become President of the U.S. Spectators clustered around the most hazardous stretches of the river, like the Spruce Mountain rapids, just as auto-racing fans flock to the most dangerous turns...
Alonzo's principal collaborator on FM is Ezra Sacks, a screenwriter with an unabashed affection for recent American movies. His script, which seems to be about a war between hip deejays and crass moneymen at a Los Angeles radio station, is a scrupulous homage to such entertainments as Car Wash and Between the Lines. At least one of his three jokes is right out of MASH. Film buffs will undoubtedly have a whale of a time picking out such references to other movies; viewers with a less academic bent may wonder if Sacks might not be trafficking in stolen...
During the summers when he was not playing golf, Paxton worked as a reporter for the Paducah Sun Democrat, the only daily in Paducah, and as a commercial writer for television station WPSD. Paxton's father is President of Paducah Newspaper Inc. which owns both enterprises. This is, needless to say, a boon for his son, who can take off from work early every day to head out for the golf course...
...week's end the new regime was already operating-"in the name of Allah," as its communiques put it-out of temporary headquarters in the government radio station. Afghanistan's customary seat of power, the sprawling Royal Palace compound in the heart of Kabul, was unusable. During the coup, the elegant mansions that had been occupied by Daoud and his advisers since they themselves seized power in 1973 were battered by a ring of rebel tanks supported by rocketing planes. Daoud, his aides, their wives and children, and many members of the 2,000-man palace guard were...