Word: eights
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...debacle dried up his campaign contributions). Kennedy visited Maine for three days over the weekend, and will be back several times in the closing days. So will many members of his family. The campaign has acquired a touch of hysteria: some Maine Democrats tell of receiving as many as eight telephone calls from different Kennedy volunteers apparently working from overlapping voter lists without coordination...
Juan, stopping to pocket an eight ball in a game of billar and then scoring a quick victory in a game of dominoes...
...forced to choose between raising prices sky high or laying off thousands of workers-at a time when unemployment is already running at 20%. The discontent of the jobless can only add to the tensions that have made political violence a way of life with an average of eight to ten killings a day. Mindful of the military's recent warning that it would move in unless terrorism is controlled, police last week arrested 98 suspect leftists in a four-province sweep. To little avail: in Istanbul, a leftist group set fire to eight banks...
...closing Mass in the Sistine Chapel, John Paul said he took satisfaction in the bishops' "clearer awareness" of the universal church. Translation: the Vatican had won on each of its eight major complaints. The handling of priestly celibacy was typical. Though Rome closed the question long ago, two liberal Dutch bishops have permitted open discussion of allowing married priests, and another bishop has said publicly that he would welcome such a change. In one of the more dramatic moments around the synod table, archtraditionalist Silvio Cardinal Oddi of the Vatican pointed a finger at each bishop in turn...
...have given any hint that England has sculptors younger than Anthony Caro, or painters less celebrated than David Hockney. Thus the Guggenheim Museum's current show, "British Art Now," is doubly interesting. Chosen by the museum's curator of exhibitions, Diane Waldman, it consists of work by eight artists, a sample with no pretensions to being a definitive list but the first good one to be seen in the U.S. in a long time. Parts of it are just as civil, neat and unoxygenated as anything that young American abstractionists have to offer. But much of the work...