Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...midweek, Israel arranged for Western newsmen to visit Marjayoun. The trip demonstrated not only that the Finns were in good condition, but that the Israelis, if they chose to do so, could have ended the incident quickly by putting pressure on the S.L.A. The situation took a comic turn late in the week when the eleven S.L.A. men, all of whom happened to be Shi'ites in an overwhelmingly Christian militia, told U.N. and Red Cross officials that they had no desire to return to the S.L.A. Confronted with this information, the S.L.A. commander, General Antoine Lahd, released the Finnish...
...Hamlet, who could have killed Claudius at his prayers but then decided not to risk the possibility that the wicked uncle's soul might thus reach heaven. "No./ Up sword, and know thou a more horrid hent;/ When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage . . . / Then trip him, that . . . / his soul may be as damn'd and black/ As hell, whereto it goes...
White Hen Pantry: It's a mile-long walk up Mass. Ave to this Porter Square establishment; but if it's nice out, or even better, if you have a car, the trip is worth it. The Hen--or the Green Chicken, as the faithful call it--stocks more than twice as much as most late-night stores, and it's usually fresher. While you're there, don't miss out on the open deli, where you can get a relatively good and large sandwich for relatively little money. There are also tables at which you can sit around with...
...which voted him its "best- looking" male graduate. He helped his father on small detective jobs and, at least two friends say, seemed almost to "worship" him. One claimed that the admiration was mixed with fear, recalling the time Michael borrowed his dad's van for a class camping trip only to have it break down. "I saw a different side of Michael then," said the classmate. "All the calm evaporated. He panicked. He said his father would kill...
...page manual of Navy contingency plans for major hostilities in the Middle East. Brenda protested that they also carried away all her computerized notes for her doctoral dissertation on nutrition. Born and reared on a farm in North Dakota, she had met Whitworth on a 1971 trip to San Diego. She had found him "dynamic and very interesting to talk to," she told the San Francisco Examiner. They corresponded for three years and were married in 1976. Said she last week: "I stand by my husband. I believe in his innocence...