Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blyden, 34, was born in the Virgin Islands; he moved to New York at the age of 16. At 20, he was convicted, along with his younger brother, of robbing a gas station of less than $100; for the theft, he spent five years in Elmira State Reformatory. In 1965, four years after his release, Blyden was convicted, on somewhat uncertain testimony, of robbing a Bronx car-rental agency. Blyden insisted that he was not guilty. After he was sentenced to a 15-to 20-year term, he began studying law in order to prepare briefs appealing his conviction...
...honestly don't know what is going to happen if the forest is cut down," admits the agrarian-reform program's Jorge Pankov. "But when your belly is so empty that you have to steal to fill it, you're less apt to worry about altering virgin environment...
...Virgin Surface...
...frustrating six months seeking capital. Finally, in 1968, Wall Street's Allen & Co. and the Value Line Development Capital Corp. anted up $2,350,000, and Sanford founded IPS. With his new bankroll, he bought three meat, grocery and restaurant-equipment companies in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and put them together to serve the Caribbean market. They prospered, and Sanford continued to follow his college plan precisely. He bought other companies in exchange for IPS stock. In all, he acquired 13 companies-in New York, California, Florida, Arizona, Hawaii and the Bahamas-and turned most of them...
...enshrined god in Lowell. "Eliot talked about a world breaking apart at the seams from a stance reflecting personal control," explains Harvard professor Roger Rosenblatt. "What people today like most about Lowell is that he seems to be coming apart at the seams himself." But they also have a Virgin Mary-Sylvia Plath, a gifted American girl who wrote despairing verse until, aged 30, she put her head into a gas oven and died. Her poetry, taut with passion, has been aptly described as "the longest suicide note ever written...