Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drama and poetry. But in the early years of the century he was a Casanova in tails. His seemingly endless list of courtships had begun in his native Poland with a twelve-year-old girl, appropriately named Mania (he was ten at the time). Then came a staggering array of flirtations and affairs...
...panel. In the first two days of hearings, the committee performed impressively. The seven Senators and two staff counsel displayed a commendable capacity to be both considerate of the witnesses and tough on vague answers. Lawyers all and unrestricted by courtroom rules of evidence, the interrogators constitute a fearsome array of antagonists for any witness who might try to sustain any lies. Equally merciless are the TV cameras, which reveal the slightest hesitation in answering or telltale signs of discomfort and deceit...
...stringy black hair looked like a mop that had been left out overnight to dry. The four other members of the band wore white satin. Behind the group tucked away in dark corners of the 8½-ton portable stage or in the wings, was a staggering $150,000 array of props-including an operating table, a 9½-ft mummy with light-up eyes, assorted swords and switchblades...
Tactics. He is also, by his own admission, "probably the greatest defensive player who ever lived." Against Court, who at 5 ft. 9 in. is two inches taller than Riggs, he will stick to the base line and try to keep the leggy Aussie running with his maddening array of precision placements, drop shots and lobs into the sun. "He'll serve like a pitcher in baseball," says Faunce, "using a curve, sinker, screwball, change-up and, when he needs it, the fastball." Adds Riggs: "She is going to see a couple of shots she hasn't seen...
...finally, "Radcliffe represents flexibility"--flexibility in response to the large array of sometimes apparently conflicting or mutually exclusive demands and roles in a woman's life: career, home, husband, children, volunteer causes. A woman's educational system can consider more paths to the goal of education than the traditional male routine has permitted. Today when both men and women are reassessing traditional education, Radcliffe's history of efforts to respond with flexibility to women's needs allows her to assume leadership in the entire re-assessing process...