Word: tasks
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...Higgins Professor of Astronomy and chairman of yesterday's meeting. "If you're going to punish students for violations of the principles of rights and responsibilities, there ought to be some way of insuring anyone who provokes those violations by being unresponsive that they should be held to task as well." he added...
...unaware that he was replaced 15 months ago while in a deep coma following a stroke-and he may never find out. No one in Portugal has so far been able to summon up the nerve to tell the old man that his 36-year reign is over. The task of preventing Salazar from finding out has fallen chiefly to his housekeeper, Dona Maria de Jesus Caetano Freire, and his physician. They deny him newspapers and television, explaining that such diversions would "tire" him. They schedule meetings with his former Cabinet ministers, who politely ignore his directives. They even admit...
Ibsen foresaw that the emancipation of women actually meant the masculinization of women. In a real but relatively limited sense, that meant acquiring a man's education and doing a man's job. The trickier task was to appropriate the realms of a man's mind and will, areas that men have guarded with far more fear and hostility than they have ever displayed about their clubs, offices and colleges...
Died. Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, 83, World War II naval hero of the Battle of Midway, turning point of the Pacific war; in Pebble Beach, Calif. In June 1942, Spruance and Admiral Frank Fletcher led a task force of 353 warplanes and 50 fighting ships against a vastly superior Japanese armada, and in a three-day battle sank four of the imperial navy's carriers, thereby virtually destroying its main offensive punch...
Liza Minnelli gives a credible performance as Pookie, but salvaging Sterile is too hopeless a task. Her co-star, Wendeli Burton, acts like a man of thirty pretending to be a fourteen-year-old kid when the role calls for an eighteen-year-old pretending to be twenty-five...