Word: unravels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to the radio, eight Christmas truces are threatening to unravel, and in the Moscow zoo the panda is either pregnant or dying. At home in Glasgow, having finished her Christmas shoplifting, Disc Jockey Alan Bird's girlfriend of four years walks out on him in the middle of decorating the tree. His dentist hurts, a psychiatrist is uncomprehending, and both sides in the territorial war between Mr. Bunny and McCool's, mobile purveyors of ice cream, keep damaging his car to register displeasure at his peacemaking efforts. In short, it is a fairly typical, that...
...terrorism within the present constitutional framework. Having no constitutional change on the agenda would unleash a new opportunity for a real change in the area that really matters whether ordinary people can live their everyday lives in peace and security. By such an action, we would already begin to unravel the net of fear and anxiety on which the murderers thrive...
...implication that Johnson and the Joint Chiefs had been willfully deceived by the reporting from Viet Nam; Burt then dropped the charge that CBS had libeled Westmoreland by accusing the general of misleading Congress and the public. Boies said that the move showed "the case is beginning to unravel." The trial, which may last as long as four months, is nevertheless expected to reopen old debates about the Viet Nam War. It will also tackle an even more irreconcilable conflict: the need to protect a free and vigorous press vs. the individual's right to redeem his reputation...
...whole vocabulary of more or less racist condescension.) The exhibition is large, though not exhausting-218 tribal objects from Africa, North America and the Pacific playing counterpoint to 147 modern ones. In organizing the show, MOMA's director of painting and sculpture, William Rubin, has set out to unravel a knotty subject by bringing all the resources of current scholarship to bear on it while still leaving the viewer exhilarated by the beauty and intensity of the works. About four years in preparation, the exhibition is the cap of Rubin's career-one which, in recent years, produced...
...play began to unravel when, with just over 3:20 remaining and Harvard holding a slim 27-21 lead, Crimson lineman Bill Ross--to whom Wilkinson gives much of the credit for the TD--put a fearsome rush on Lion quarterback Henry Santos...