Word: handly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both Iranian and Islamic law. For the crime of fornication with a virgin, he could receive three to 15 years imprisonment under civil law, and a public flogging of up to 100 lashes with a whip under the religious code. The embassy militants now say they are "prepared to hand [the Marine] over to the revolutionary prosecutor's office to be questioned...
...whatever the ultimate importance history gives Liang Shu-ming. Liang was, for a time, a pivotal figue in both the epochal intellectual debates and in the early attempts to mobilize China's peasantry that marked China's pre-1949 history. Alitto tells Liang's individual story with a sure hand, combining clear writing with extraordinarily comprehensive research...
McCue's main worry is the trail of tuition dollars that will drift out of his grasp as the CRP students troop across campus. Allison, on the other hand, has so many administrative knots to untangle that he sees the millions needed for expansion as only one element of "a classic list of problems." First, he and his faculty must decide how to integrate CRP into the Public Policy program while reassuring students such as Scott Muldavin who say, "CRP people are concerned that they will be delegated to second banana over at the Kennedy School." Echoing McCue, Allison says...
High school security guards called city police "when it looked as if things might turn ugly," the director of security at the school said yesterday. "We didn't want it to get out of hand; things only looked like they could get worse," the guard said...
...toward the stage, flailing, screaming about Communist aggression, conspiracies, treason. Finally the police come to push them away. "Whose side are you on," one of the Moonies asked the cops. "Yours--but they've got a permit," a policeman answered. A tactical retreat, and then the Moonies regroup to hand out literature at the edge of the rally...