Word: turns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edward Abrahamian, professor at the City University of New York, agreed the Iranians should seek an international court, but said they should turn to the League of Human Rights...
Lesley College officials denounced the moratorium yesterday. They are planning to turn a two-family house into student housing early this summer, and a moratorium "could cause us real problems in the early stages" of the job, Robert Lewis, executive vice president of the college, said yesterday...
...film's early scenes do not focus on individual people. Ballard opens with pure spectacle, allowing his movie to get off to a rousing start. As the camera wanders around an exotic ship traveling near North Africa in 1946, there is mystery and sensuous excitement at every turn. In one corner of the ship, middle-aged adventurers silently play poker for a high-stakes pot of dazzling gems and religious icons. In another, a bizarre team of white-gowned Arabs zealously guards a shrieking black Arabian stallion. When a storm strikes late one night, the film provides a shipwreck...
...cagers are in trouble, and coach Carole Kleinfelder knows it: "We're not playing well, and I'm not all that sure what we're going to do to turn it around...
Qualities like honor, integrity, and courage don't own a place in Davis's lexicon of human motivation. She coins the term "mediapolitics"--which, we're told, signifies "the inseparable relationship between the media and the government"--and then assumes that such a relationship will turn cozy and manipulative, the press serving as lackey to the caprices of politicians. When the Red Threat loomed large in the '50s, the press (as Davis shows) did undoubtedly slant its news--not because it wished to gratify those in power, but in a misguided attempt to serve the national interest. Yet a press...