Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...melodrama that followed Che Guevara's death in October 1967, no role was more bizarre than that of a bit player named Antonio Arguedas, 41, a former Bolivian Interior Minister. By his own account, Arguedas smuggled a copy of Guevara's diary out of Bolivia and into Fidel Castro's hands, then fled his country to avoid arrest. He has been involved in a cat-and-mouse struggle with Bolivian authorities ever since...
...this basically serious exercise in parody, Maclnnes adopts the young narrator-adventurer common to 18th century fiction. He is one Alexander Nairn, a pushy Scots lad but a bit of a Presbyterian prig. Alexander ships from Liverpool on a slaver carrying blacks from Africa on the final leg of their journey to West Indian sugar plantations...
...wasn't enjoying basketball there." Smith said. "All he did at Duke was play basketball," Smith was a bit reluctant to elaborate further on Fitzsimmons's reasons for transferring, but said that one of the features he likes about Harvard is the fact that the stress isn't on athletics-a reason frequently cited by athletes who decide to come here...
Kerry's style can turn people off at first because he gives the initial impression of being too good to be true, of being just a little bit insincere. His preppiness might make you think he's a blueblood WASP, but Kerry is really a Roman Catholic. However, an afternoon on the campaign trail with Kerry leaves you with quite a different impression...
...blow the Indians into the surrounding Hanover hills. A ten-minute span of sloppy play reminiscent of its performance against Princeton and North-eastern took the sharp edge off the Crimson's game midway though the second ??, and kept a game that should have been a runaway quite a bit closer...