Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twelve hours a day, but effort has not translated into results that can be labeled as his own. In the Senate world of committees and compromises, his executive talent and experience are wasted: his is only one voice out of 100, and there is nothing for him to decide except where he himself stands...
Morocco-born Pesquet, an unstable and bizarre fellow, was hardly a man whose word was to be preferred to Mitterrand's, except for one fact: nine hours before the attack, he said, he had written a letter describing exactly what was going to happen, and had posted it to himself, care of general delivery. When police collected the letter from the post office, they found that it did indeed describe the attack correctly, even pinpointed the spot at which Mitterrand had abandoned his car after the shooting...
...comic scenes center around Josie-the-slattern's rascally old Irish father, who is played by Arthur Malet with a nicely integrated and polished collection of mannerisms indicating rascality and eld. It would be a brilliant performance, except that it is a bit too carefully styled and a bit too lovable to be thoroughly at home in O'Neill's harshly realistic play. Moreover--unaccountably, in view of his obvious skills--Mr. Malet is not very funny...
...quarterbacks except Charlie Ravenel are expected to see action this morning when the Crimson junior varsity football team plays the Princeton squad. Game time is 10:30 at Soldiers Field...
Plans for deconversion of some suites in all House except Quincy would reduce, from four to three, the number of students now living in a "converted" three-bedroom unit. Since World War II space deficiency has compelled the House to place an excessive amount of students in each suite...