Word: returning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...said that he knew Donson was a collector of art prints and that he had found the letters in a wastebasket. Donson took them to the auctioneer and received $500 in advance, but when he learned that they were stolen, he tried to get them back to return them to Gilpatric...
Then began a nightmarish, nine-day odyssey of 17,069 miles. When she sought to return to Kenya, she was refused entry. Three other countries rejected her pleas for admission. She drifted to airports in Frankfurt, Zurich, Athens, Nairobi and Johannesburg, still clad in the same lime-green sari and red cardigan she wore when she left home. She was near collapse: "I have lived on rolls and coffee for a week," she said. "I just want to go to bed and sleep...
...knows exactly how many religious have jumped over the wall?partly because it is so easy today for a priest, nun or brother simply to take a leave of absence and never return. One Vatican official estimates that 6,500 nuns (out of 1,175,000 worldwide) left last year alone. As for priests, the Vatican acknowledges that it has on file at least 10,000 requests from priests asking to be dispensed from their vows, and there are undoubtedly thousands more who have left without asking at all. In the U.S. alone, an organization called Bearings for Re-Establishment...
...gypsum in awful parodies of sexual ecstasy. "I always knew it would be like this," sighs a sated Mark as he and Daria gaze at postcoital desert vistas before going their separate ways. Each has profoundly affected the other, of course. Mark flies back to L.A. to return the plane. Daria, hearing on her car radio that Mark has been killed by the cops, soon envisages her boss/lover's house blowing into smithereens in a slow-motion ballet of destruction...
...chimp-property of Christiansen and Wilhelmina Dowell, house residents in Cabot-is staying with Miss Hastings until Sunday, when his owners return from California. The Dowells originally gave Ernie to a Harvard student, an expert on primate behavior, who returned the chimp to Cabot after he destroyed furniture...