Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heller (H) def. Wilson...
Little, Brown's republication of Waugh's dozen best novels provides a fresh opportunity to appreciate how skillfully he balanced between satire and romance. Most important, these handsome new editions reconfirm Edmund Wilson's 1944 judgment that Waugh "is likely to figure as the only first-rate comic genius that has appeared in English since Bernard Shaw." Characters like Lady Margot Metroland, Mayfair hostess and procuress of Decline and Fall, Mrs. Melrose Ape of Vile Bodies, the American evangelist modeled on Aimee Semple McPherson, Basil Seal, highborn wastrel of Black Mischief and Put Out More Flags...
...aggressive tactics of striking workers have led to a growing anti-union sentiment. Particularly offensive to many Britons are the truckers' "flying pickets," who race from one point to another, hampering deliveries by nonunion drivers. A bill enacted by the Labor government of Harold Wilson in 1974 is allowing truckers to hold the entire nation virtually at ransom by preventing shipments to plants and businesses with no direct role in the union negotiations. More than 200,000 workers have been laid off from factories idled by a lack of raw materials and supplies. Almost $2 billion worth of imports...
Seconds before Wilson's tally, George Hughes failed to capitalize on a golden opportunity. After coach Billy Cleary pulled goalie John Hynes with 1:13 left for an extra attacker, Hughes needed merely to flip a backhand over the outstretched arm of Friar goalie Bill Milner. But, he could not lift the puck, and P.C. saved the victory...
...Second Period: H--Rick Benson (John Cochrane, David Burke) 5:40; PC--Steve O'Neill (Tom Bauer, Jim Korn) 6:01; H--Mike Watson (George Hughes, Jack Hughes) 19:02; H--G. Hughes (J. Hughes, John Dunderdale) 19:41. Third Period: PC--Bauer (Korn, Evangelista) 15:52; PC--Randy Wilson (Denis Martin...