Word: bases
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...progressed to bombings with the explosion at a strike-bound shoe factory in 1966, and escalated to the political kidnappings of earlier this month. The FLQ was always a self-consciously underground group, rarely offering any explanation of what it did, never attempting to build an above-ground political base. Its acts were characterized in the Canadian media as those of mad and reckless terrorists...
Both Barton and Ryan base their positions on reforming the CRR so that it contains a student majority...
That Robinson can and does, better than anyone else around, was borne out by the message Baltimore fans inscribed on third base last week: "Brooks plays here." As a more lasting memento, Robinson was asked to turn in his glove so that it could be enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Shrugged Brooks: "I guess I'll just have to break in a new glove in spring training...
...suggest 19th century romantic novels: a Tolstoy heroine tuned to the breaking point over the frets of love, a Dostoevsky soul glutton, a Stendhal glory hound. The settings, however, are strictly 20th century American, illuminated by sheets of cold neon. Urban infestations where "taxes are rising and the tax base is falling," suburbs that miraculously exist for hours without the visible presence of human life, transitional neighborhoods where elderly holdouts keep their white elephants alive by secretly feeding them boarders...
...main reason that Gore is in trouble is the emerging Republican majority in Tennessee. Built around the traditionally Republican Eastern Tennessee and the new suburbs of cities like Memphis and Nashville, the Republican base has been stirred by Brock's richly financed TV campaign...