Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, fifth-slotted Courtney Stimpson, sixth-ranked Jenny Stone and number seven Ellie Cunningham all held their opponents to under 15 points total over the course of their three-game victories...
...Stone and Adriana Holy finished one-two in both the one and three meter diving events, with Stone amassing 242.95 points in the former and 227.00 points in the latter...
...Stone walls do not a prison make," said the poet, "nor iron bars a cage." Tell that to petite Brunette Maria-Christina ("Putzi") von Opel, 28, playgirl heiress to a vast German auto fortune. Last week von Opel found herself behind walls and bars facing a ten-year prison term after a French court in Draguignan found her guilty of financing a 1977 scheme to import Middle East hashish into West Germany, and Italy via Saint-Tropez. Why should an heiress worth $70 million involve herself in a drug ring? Neither von Opel nor any of her seven co-defendants...
Twice upon a time there was a writer and illustrator named Uri Shulevitz. When he illustrated The Lost Kingdom of Karnica (Scribners; $8.95) he amplified Richard Kennedy's tale with a subtle palette. It creates a kingdom where everything is bounteous-until a farmer discovers a strange red stone...
...nation's wise man warns that the stone is the heart of Karnica: "If we remove it, the kingdom will die." But in such stories, the rulers never listen, giving the author an opportunity to draw a powerful moral about conservation. It is no accident that Sierra Club Books is a co-publisher...