Word: tre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...itself a touchingly direct tribute to Rebecca, Mellyn has become the model for many of the new romances. The plot concerns Martha Leigh, a young gentlewoman in reduced circumstances, who comes to a vast mansion in Cornwall to care for the motherless daughter of enigmatic Connan Tre-Mellyn. Even before Martha falls reluctantly in love with Connan, she learns that his wife's death was both scandalous and mysterious, that he is surrounded by neighbors with ambiguous motives and that there is now a child at the gatehouse that provocatively resembles his daughter. Martha becomes mistress of Mellyn...
...speaking out against excessive military spending and the war, and has hit hard on economic issues. At a recent debate with Mrs. Heckler, for example, after Mrs. Heckler had said in reply to Yaffe's sharp criticism of the 8.5 per cent unemployment rate in Fall River, that tre rate was 10 per cent a year ago, Yaffe retorted, "I can't wait to rush back to Fall River and tell the 8.5 per cent how happy they should be that last year they were 10 per cent...
Performing before an audience of 700 at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris last week, Violin Virtuoso Jascha Heifetz completed the last segment of a taped, hour-long all-Heifetz TV show that will be aired in the U.S. in April. During a passage that the accompanying French National Orchestra played too loudly, Heifetz, 69, cautioned, "Softer, please, they want to hear me." An impressive standing ovation proved that he was absolutely right...
...Fall campaign which culminated in tre occupation of Dean May's office on November 19, SDS charged that the painters' helpers program was an example of subtle racism in the University. They said that many of the painters' helpers were in fact experienced painters and demanded that all painters' helpers be promoted to painters immediately...
...being in the right place at the right time, Arnett combines hustle with a discerning eye for detail and an acute ear for devastating quotes, including those that symbolize the tragedy of the war. He was there, for example, when an Army major looked over the ruins of Ben Tre after the Tet offensive and said, "The city had to be destroyed in order to save...