Word: wente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months, federal agents questioned the office's 85 employees and combed the building for clues. They determined that much of the missing gold might have been lost during the refining process-some of it undoubtedly went up the chimney in smoke-but they could not rule out the possibility of theft. With 4,100 oz. of gold still missing, the department has now announced that the agents had ended their investigation. Said a spokesman: "The bottom line is that they just could not tell what happened...
...step in a methodical transition from 13 years of military rule, what Nigerian officials describe as an "impressive" number of the country's 48.5 million registered voters went to polls this month to choose a President. Last week after ballots had been gathered from places as varied as the slums of the appallingly crowded capital Lagos, the minareted city of Kano in the Muslim north and steamy Enugu in the old Biafra area of the Christian and animist south, the name of Nigeria's first popularly elected chief executive was announced. He is Alhaji Shehu Shagari...
Coppola appears to believe that if Kurtz soliloquizes about "horror" and "moral terror," the audience will think that the movie has actually dealt with these matters. But when Willard assassinates Kurtz, we still do not know why the Green Beret went mad, the genesis of his large cult or even the identity of the many gruesome corpses and severed heads that lie strewn about his domain. Nor do we know why Willard, a sudden convert to Kurtz's undefined cause, goes ahead and kills him. By withholding this information, Coppola gives up his final chance to confront the issues...
...they were balsa wood. Boats were capsized, righted and then swamped again, their crews suspended terrified in safety harnesses. Less fortunate yachtsmen were thrown about the decks or washed overboard. Said British Skipper Arthur Moss of Camargue: "Our steering [wheel], complete with a man attached, went soaring into...
...brother's ranch and makes a pass at one of his Indian employees; he loses his job as a consequence. After causing this injustice, the woman "shrugged her shoulders, got into the bed ... blew out the lamp, listened for a few minutes to the night sounds, and went peacefully to sleep, thinking of how surprisingly little time it had taken her to get used to life at Paso Rojo, and even, she had to admit now, to begin to enjoy it." Bowles' irony passes by like a night chill. The woman is not "getting used to" life...