Word: tags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harold Wilson's departure from power closes what historians will probably tag Britain's Wilson Era-a period of painful adjustment to a postEmpire world of narrowing influence and opportunities abroad and unfulfilled expectations at home. As head of government for nearly eight of the past twelve years, Wilson may not have dominated the era, but he was certainly its dominant political figure and symbol, a round, pipe-puffing, wily-some would say shifty-Yorkshireman waging a struggle to hold party and country together...
...million. So last week Mott sadly backed out of the deal, $300,000 poorer thanks to legal and engineering costs, and began the search for new digs. His builders, meanwhile, began the search for a new buyer and put the penthouse up for sale with a price tag boosted to $3.5 million to cover their losses...
SOUTH AFRICA: The High Price Tag...
Bailey graduated first in his class, despite spending much of his time watching actual trials and running a successful investigative firm servicing local lawyers. During classes he often read in apparent boredom; when his professors tried to tag him with sudden questions, he would smugly answer in minute detail, then go back to his reading. His worst grade, ironically, was on a criminal law exam?but only because he is plagued with a bad case of lefthanders' handwriting and could not finish all his answers. After that debacle, he was permitted to bring a typewriter to all his exams; even...
...story, something that will "out-Maupassant Maupassant." The friend responds with an experience from his youth, a naggingly inexplicable encounter with a senior boy at an English boarding school. As the tale is told, the listener grows restive: the narrative is replete with hidden motives, loose ends and awkward, tag-along sequels. "There is too much in it," the writer finally declares. He cannot possibly turn such a shapeless bundle of facts into a proper short story...