Word: visits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extremely important to experience the past and not just to read about it, to walk through people's houses, to visit battlefields, to look at machinery, to hear machinery," said John, who started a Mather House dinner series on "The History of Technology...
Penn, the five-time defending Ivy champion, is not out of the Ivy title hunt yet. The Quakers (2-1) face Yale this weekend and Princeton the next. And on November 14, Penn will pay a visit to the Stadium. A tough schedule, but the Quakers are the only team to beat Brown this year...
What sparked the flame in the so-called land of snows? It could have been the execution of two Tibetan nationalists by Chinese authorities in late September. Or perhaps it was the Dalai Lama's recent visit to the U.S., where he called for a withdrawal of Chinese forces from Tibet, as well as a greater degree of autonomy for his mountain realm. Late last month, in any case, 27 saffron-robed Tibetan monks were arrested for taking part in an anti-Chinese demonstration outside Lhasa's Jokhang Temple. Four days later a mob of 2,000 Tibetans gathered...
...containing another rhesus monkey with a free left arm -- all to see what mischief I'm capable of. They needn't worry. I will do nothing to embarrass the motherland. Besides, I can't leave my seat. I cannot reach any levers. Nor can I leave my chamber to visit the fish and the mice on board for experiments. What this biosatellite needs is some of your perestroika -- you know, restructuring. Space flight might then be more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Sincerely yours, Yerosha
...play music, softball, twenty questions, chess, croquet, house, and around." In the vocabulary of a courtly hipster, he records his struggles with concupiscence ("Her temptation was awaiting my default and ate at my ethics like an itch"), though he does admit that one night he declined an invitation to visit the hotel room of an amorous Little Richard. Chapters are devoted to each of Berry's three jail terms (for armed robbery as a teenager, for a Mann Act violation in the '60s and for tax evasion in the '70s). Every 16 years or so, he would emerge from prison...