Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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On another front, the Vatican suffered a more acute embarrassment. Rome's T-7, a weekly entertainment magazine, conducted a poll of 300 journalists and 3,000 of its readers to select Italy's Man of the Year. Pope Paul finished second, but it was a discouraging second...
Even a guru has to put up with an occasional dressing-down from his dad. Allen Ginsberg, 43, and his father Louis, 74, were doing one of their tandem poetry readings in Miami when Allen's pro-drug comments ("I am turned on more often than I watch television...
Almost every person convicted of drunken driving in Phoenix, Ariz., must suffer through this eyewitness account of a Christmas Eve tragedy. The witness was Ernest I. Stewart, a professor of health education at Arizona State University. After he saw the crash, Stewart talked the city's chief magistrate into...
With the support of Arizona State, Stewart organized the Phoenix Alcohol Research and Re-Education Project. He persuaded municipal judges to order hundreds of local citizens convicted of D.W.I. (Driving While Intoxicated) to attend his four-week course or face the loss of their operator's licenses. Each Wednesday...
One scene shows a driver awakening in a hospital to discover that he is missing a leg. Stewart also demonstrates how alcohol retards reaction time and causes personality changes that impair judgment. He recites a litany of grim statistics on highway slaughter.