Word: adamant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pursuit of its concept of normalcy, the military herded 7,000 suspects into Santiago's soccer stadium for lack of a better mass prison elsewhere. Among the prisoners were several Americans, including Adam Garrett-Schesch, 31, a University of Wisconsin history researcher, and his wife Patricia, 30, a sociologist. Released and allowed to leave Chile, the couple contended that between 400 and 500 captives had been shot during the time they were held in the stadium...
Lucky Eagle, who under the paleface name Adam Nordwall teaches sociology at California State University at Hayward, was simply trying to score a point...
Several hundred students were forced to stand in the aisles as Otto Eckstein, professor of Economics gave the course's opening lecture covering Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and the rudiments of economic history...
...even grant you your points about the Separation of Powers, prior knowledge, and the general climate of immorality in the Garden. But surely the events that followed the burglary and eating of the TKGE demonstrate conscious and deliberate wrong-doing and an attempt on both your and Adam's parts to hide...
...Adam was on about his second bite of Caesar salad. Everything was quiet and peaceful, and he was looking at me with that "Wow!" expression of his. Then, all of a sudden, this really crazy look comes over his face. He jumped up spilling salad all over the place. Then he just ran off into the trees. In a few minutes he came running back with a bunch of fig leaves in his hand. Then he starts yelling at me, "For God's sake, Eve, get your butt off the ground and put on these fig leaves...