Word: walden
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Though Prince Aleksey Andreyevich Orlov is only 30, he is the emissary whom his uncle, Czar Nicholas II, trusts with a secret task: extracting a stiff price for Russian commitment. Orlov has other credentials: another uncle is the Earl of Walden, a father figure to young Orlov since the boy's Oxford days. Together, the relatives negotiate the fate of their respective nations. It is not an easy matter. In Russia, revolutionaries are appalled at the prospect of war. Feliks Kschessinsky, a terrorist leader, fulminates, "Half the misery in the world is caused by nice young men like Orlov...
...know whether we're just fishing or not." Harvard Police Chief Saul L. Chafin said as the five-month search for Joan Webster entered a new phase. By the end of the week, police had dragged in vain both Walden Pond and a lake in Beverly...
Police officials also said yesterday that cold weather and high winds prevented further searches at Walden Pond in Concord and delayed the start of an investigation of a pond with the same name in Saugus. Mass. located on Route One about five miles from the marsh where Webster's purse and wallet were found three days after she disappeared...
Poor weather yesterday hampered the search of Walden Pond in Concord, Mass, where area police began drugging the pond bottom Friday to locate the graduate student's body...
...parade of screaming newsbreaks, "easy listening" and top-ten programming is being replaced with Chaucer and Cheever, Tennyson and Updike. Many freeway jockeys, as well as joggers, cooks, hobbyists and workers whose hands and eyes are otherwise engaged, are trying the best nonprescription tranquilizer available: Thoreau's Walden...