Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shots rang across St. Peter's Square last May, one witness recalled, like "the popping of a string of firecrackers." Pope John Paul II lay grievously wounded, and a right-wing Turkish fanatic, Mehmet Ali Agca, 23, barely escaped being torn to pieces by an angry mob for attempting to kill the Pope. Ever since, Agca has claimed that he acted alone. But right from the start, Italian police and the judges who sentenced him to life imprisonment felt to the contrary, yet were strangely reluctant to pursue their leads. Last week Italian investigators finally declared that they...
Despite his status as the second Bermuda Shoot winner--as fast as Mr. Zimmerman can remember, anyway--Clay has no plans to return to his second-string forwards's spot for the Beloit Buccaneers. He quit just two weeks ago because, Nancy cuts in, "They were just making him practice too much." The Buccaneers' loss is apparently the botany lab's gain...
...decision marked another in a string of MATEP regulatory and court victories begun in November 1980 when, after several years of haggling, the state's Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) approved installation of the plant't six diesel engines under 32 operating conditions, aimed at preventing dangerous levels of diesel exhaust...
...Israeli charges against Abu Eain were based on the testimony of Jamil Yassin, an admitted member of the Palestine Liberation Organization who was arrested for a string of bombings, including the Tiberias explosion, in June 1979. Israeli soldiers found in Yassin's home in Ramallah what one Israeli security officer described as a "bomb factory, pure and simple." Yassin confessed that he built the bomb and recruited Abu Eain to plant it in Tiberias. Yassin was sentenced to life imprisonment, but Abu Eain had already fled Ramallah to visit a sister in Chicago. Israeli officials asked...
...Francisco Examiner, where he was music critic for 3½ years and won a 1980 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for distinguished music criticism. A 1971 graduate of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., where he studied composition and musicology, Walsh has written a piano sonata and a string quartet. Says he: "Only someone who has gone through the agony of putting notes on paper to form a coherent musical structure can know what a tremendous achievement a good piece of music is." He is also an accomplished pianist. In the mid-1970s he gave a series of concerts...