Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...observes an Israeli official. "With Americans between the two armies, each side would hesitate to attack, and the American presence would express America's belief that war will not serve either side." Another Israeli says: "The main Sinai roads toward Israel will be in American hands. We can trust those hands...
...many American schools, teachers are overworked and overwhelmed. They are lucky if they can give ten minutes to correcting a student's paper. Some teachers doggedly diagram sentences in the hope that the structure of language will sink in and provide a foundation. Others forget about structures and trust that reading literature will ensure, perhaps by osmosis, a better grasp of the language - although the definition of literature now has often descended from Shakespeare and Conrad to Woody Allen and Kurt Vonnegut...
...debut at 60, playing a wrinkled cardsharpie in The Queen of Spades. Now 87, veteran Stage Actress Dame Edith Evans seemed as peppery as ever last week on the sets of Cinderella, her 17th movie, currently being filmed in London. "When we get to the ballroom scene, I do trust I'm going to be allowed to dance?" asked Dame Edith, who portrays a dowager queen opposite Richard Chamberlain as Prince Charming and Gemma Craven as Cinderella. With London suffering through one of its muggiest summers in years, the indomitable Dame has been arriving for work promptly...
...many alumni, a week or so on campus offers the advantage of a relatively inexpensive vacation with a chance to learn something. Curtis Reis, 41, a vice president of Banker's Trust Co. in Manhattan, attended his fourth alumni college at Cornell last month. Says he: "It is a tremendous combination of a vacation and a different kind of intellectual experience, an exposure to good minds and a chance to explore subjects you can't in the normal course of life." Alfred Moellering, 48, a judge in Fort Wayne, Ind., his wife and two children enrolled...
...Dodger's fan, you learn not to trust the Globe at all. Next to "Los Angles" in the baseball standings, the Globe will often print at the institution of the bus it says: "Not including late game." Meaning the Globe couldn't wait until the Dodger score rolled in from L.A., a faraway place in a different time zone...