Word: returning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Heath was smiling broadly and talking with enthusiasm. "That was the moment," a friend recalls. Someone started cautiously laying out half a dozen bottles of champagne. Four hours later, Heath was sitting in the bar of the Crook Log Hotel when television brought him the evening's first return: a 4% swing to the Tories in Guildford. Heath marched happily out of the bar and drove a mile to the town's Territorial Army drill hall, where the votes were being counted. Inside the hall, Bexley's mayor grabbed Heath's hand and pumped it in congratulation: a 7% swing...
...power, while a ton of steel requires only 2,700 kwh. In addition, steel products, especially cars, could be redesigned for easier and fuller reuse. To reclaim a ton of scrap steel in an electric furnace requires only 700 kwh. Another plus for steel would be a return to "tin" (mostly steel) cans that rust away, compared with aluminum cans that last and litter the landscape for decades...
...Orpheus in Hades, the Dylan of Self Portrait is in an astonishingly contemplative mood. As with John Wesley Harding (1968) and Nashville Skyline (1969), the old fire of protest burns low. Obviously, there is time now to look around, time to accept tributes and time to bestow them in return...
...dissension, Cornfeld pointed to "those maniacal guys on the board." Cornfeld still has about 15% of the company's stock, and, like Napoleon trying to come back from Elba, he has been jetting from country to country, seeking to gather proxies from his sales managers for a triumphal return to power...
...possess him. He appeared only in my imagination, and when he did not come to the wedding, I thought I would simply perish. Daniel pretended to help me find him, but he was desperately intent on keeping us apart. Finally, in a transport of sorrow, I decided to return to Rome. Ah, but then at the airport I saw the adorable autoball player and followed him to a hotel. When I learned he was not my Gregory after all, my slender dream shattered into a thousand meaningless fragments...