Word: letterer
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While Noriega waited, Secretary of State James Baker on Dec. 26 sent a letter to the Vatican arguing that Noriega was not a political refugee but a common criminal fleeing prosecution. Later he assured the Vatican that Noriega would be arrested, not killed, by U.S. forces if he left the embassy...
...subject. There is no theory of life's origin in Darwin's work. True to his title, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Darwin confined himself to describing the process by which new species, including our own, have evolved from the old. In a letter to American botanist Asa Gray, he dismissed all theological pretensions on his part with the words: "A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton...
...sirens audible over his open phone line. They arrived too late to save Carol Stuart, 30. Her son Christopher was delivered by Cesarean section but lived for only 17 days. Hospitalized for more than a month, Stuart did not attend his wife's funeral. Instead, he wrote a farewell letter to her that was read at the service: "I will never again know the feeling of your hand in mine, but I will always feel you. I miss you, and I love...
...letter to the DPW, Julia O'Brien, director of planning for the MDC, expressed concern "that the adverse impacts of the Preferred Alternative as presented to date are excessive and that no open space mitigation plan has been advanced...
Opponents also said they doubt whether the highway project will actually improve traffic flow. O'Brien's letter states, "The MDC believes that the Preferred Alternative will do little to increase existing highway efficiency...