Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night gambling den, with sex available as an added lure. At least 13 men and women, some of them registered guests, made their way to room 330 for the night's gambol. Around 7 a.m. Sunday, two men crashed the party at gunpoint. The pair made the partygoers strip and stole their money, watches and jewelry. As a vicious finale, they raped one of the women. The two men then locked the victims into the room's closets and bathroom, and fled...
...that Farouk Kaddoumy, head of the P.L.O.'s political department, heaved his well-filled dinner plate at Jordanian Premier and Foreign Minister Zaid Rifai. At week's end the foreign ministers voted 19 to 1 to adopt a resolution co-sponsored by Syria and Egypt that would strip King Hussein of sovereignty over the West Bank. Hussein was expected to make a determined pitch to dissuade the heads of state from ratifying the resolution, and there was a possibility that Jordan might pull out of the conference altogether...
...emphasized spelling, grammar and punctuation because he saw them as barriers. He emphasized poem-ideas that were easy and natural for children to use, and that encouraged immediate responses. Often the children would make rules for the poem (i.e. it must include a color and a comic-strip character, or a city and a country, with "I wish" at the beginning). After the group poems his students went on to describing noises, dreams, colors, music, lies, then to even more sophisticated poems using comparisons and themes like "I used to be... But now I am," and even metaphors...
What is more, says the Ford Foundation group, the nation could achieve that reduction while continuing to guard the environment; it could "still stop strip-mining for coal in the arid West" and would not have to rush nuclear plants into use while doubts remained as to their safety. "Neither jobs, nor growth rates in incomes, nor household comforts will suffer" by cutting the growth of energy use to 2%, they conclude. "Insulating homes and buildings and making cars that get better mileage are no threat to anyone-except perhaps to the energy-company salesmen...
...needed coal, Ford requested new strip-mining legislation with "common-sense environmental protection." Nixon had made the same request, and House and Senate bills to regulate surface mining are now in conference committee. But far from giving the coal industry carte blanche, the conference bill is "basically a victory for the environmentalists," according to a House committee staffer. It includes tough rules for restoring the scarred land after surface mining and calls for federal designation of lands that cannot be stripped because they cannot be repaired...