Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should swallow their pride and return to the "Cambridge Convention" label adopted years ago. Hiding the CCA name probably won't mystify supporters, but it may calm those in other parts of the city who support the group's position ideologically but can't bring themselves to back the upper crust...
...underwriting a fad," says Janus. Several people raised eyebrows when the women's hockey team gained varsity status a short while ago--"they thought it was a passing fancy," Janus recalled. So it's unlikely that the ultimate frisbee squad will petition anytime soon for a place in the upper echelon...
...small flourescent sign marks the upper side of a green trailor that rusts on four rotting tires: "The Taunton Sport Parachuting Center." An empty field of uncut grass stretches out from the trailor and road, stopping before a band of trees and marsh. No planes, no parachutes, no jumpers. The wind twists dust and leaves in a lonely, aimless swirl...
...Chung Seung Hwa, 53, the Army Chief of Staff and Martial Law Commander. Last week Chung's deputy, Lieut. General Lee Hee Sung, was named as acting chief of the discredited but still powerful Korean Central Intelligence Agency. Chung immediately ordered a purge of the agency's upper echelons. Most observers concluded that he had already emerged as the dominant figure of the interim regime. Also, few doubted that he would be a power to reckon with in the succession struggle...
...behind Clementine's correct facade was a heroine worthy of Jane Austen, as her daughter Mary Soames reveals in this fluent, dispassionate biography. The daughter of Colonel Henry Hozier and Lady Blanche Hozier, her upper-class but financially precarious parents, Clementine was a shy and teary child. But by the time she married Winston, she had blossomed as one of London's acknowledged beauties-and a lady who could speak her mind. She would interrupt dinner guests who monopolized the conversation-especially if their views did not agree with her own. She even upbraided Charles de Gaulle, when...