Word: warrens
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...secure will always be able to get abortions when they want. And any ban will simply force many women who want to terminate their pregnancies to get illegal and unsafe operations, as happened before 1973. "A ban would only make abortion a humiliating and sordid experience," points out Dr. Warren Hern, director of a Boulder...
Breaking out of his traditionally slow start. Warren Grossman, the number five player, confronted the well-respected freshman, Bailey Taff. The first set saw plebe Taff taking an early 6-4 lead. However, a determined Grossman:--relying on his natural quickness to get behind the superb shooting of his opponent--forced Taff into two consecutive tie-breaking sets, both of which Grossman...
...presidential debate, in which he said that Poland was not under Soviet domination, for instance. In a way, that turned out to contain a grain of truth, thanks to Lech Walesa and the strikes; in any case it was a nice thing to wish. As was U.N. Ambassador Warren Austin's suggestion in 1948 that Jews and Arabs resolve their differences "in a true Christian spirit." Similarly, Nebraska's former Senator Kenneth Wherry might have been thinking dreamily when, in an hour-long speech on a country in Southeast Asia, he referred throughout to "Indigo-China...
...victim in question is Janet Mandelbaum, the first owner of the endowed chair. An impressive scholar of dubious social skills. Mandelbaum finds a cold welcome in Warren House, the Holy See of Harvard English. As the title suggests, she winds up with a lot worse than a cold shoulder, and Professor Fansler is summoned to find out exactly what happened...
...flaws are ultimately insignificant, and Death is a quick-reading delight. There is one question, however, that begs an answer, particularly to Harvard readers: which inhabitants of Cross's Warren House represent the real-life versions? In fairness, it must be noted that the book begins with an elaborate and extended disclaimer. It reads, in part: "Since Harvard University, Cambridge, many of the places and some of the people mentioned in this novel do exist, it is the more important to declare unequivocally that none of the persons actually appearing in this novel... bears any resemblance to anyone anywhere...