Word: stones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when I came in." Then, by way of illustration, the President pulled up his blue knit sports shirt and let the whole world inspect the ugly twelve-inch seam in the flesh under his right rib cage where doctors had removed his gall bladder and a kidney stone...
...problem is that Michael Cacoyannis has unforgiveably tried to wring emotion from a stone-dry script, presumably to titillate the crowd in the Broadway bleachers. In imitation of Luther, or perhaps even The Sound of Music, Cacoyannis punctuates the play with obnoxious Gregorian chant. His minor characters, whom Whiting wisely kept undeveloped to preserve focus, become caricature roles of great distraction. Cacoyannis also revives The Trojan Woman by turning the Ursuline Nuns into a Greek chorus...
...Keep On Doing." This was a sharp change of tone from the first three days after the operation that removed his gall bladder and a kidney stone Oct. 8. For that period of time, the President had seemed to be simmering with energy-as patients often do immediately following surgery. The anesthetic had barely worn off when he was signing bills, dictating telegrams, calling relatives with medical bulletins, approving appointments, and largely behaving as if he were still in the oval office...
...realism on the Tories' part, as well as another step in Heath's determined plan to bring Britain closer to Europe and win membership in the Common Market. Closing down such major British bases as Aden and Singapore, substituting a cheaper defense line based on small, stepping-stone islands in the Indian Ocean would produce a considerable saving in Britain's annual $6 billion defense budget. The U.S. Navy is currently studying the possibility of erecting a joint base in the Seychelles Islands to that end. The Labor Party, still officially committed to maintaining British bases east...
...Explosions. Vespas bursting into the left ear and out the right. Trucks with wheels of stone rumbling down the middle of the bed." Thus two Americans awake to the "normal havoc" of a Sicilian morning. Howard is a huge, blond, earnest young graduate student; Sarah, his wife, is a humorous, easygoing girl with honey-colored hair and long shapely legs. They have come to Agrigento to inspect the Grecian ruins and enjoy the local color; but they stay, as Author Tom Cole relates in the superb novella that dominates his first book of stories, because Sicily seizes them...