Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seized the child and spirited her away to the reservation. Keetso and the Pittses charge that Navajo officials violated an understanding that Allyssa would be placed solely in the care of her maternal grandmother until the hearing. Instead, they say, the child was left in the home of a stranger, where she was neglected and quickly fell ill. Tribal authorities deny that such an understanding existed and contend that the baby's illness was due to a change of formula...
...Picnic opens, everybody is busily preparing for the town's annual picnic when a stranger comes to town. He's tall and handsome, and his arrival ends up disrupting one family, one friendship and two love affairs...
...other undergraduates on the trip were Nicholas B. Basden '89, Priya Bhatia '90, Saria Brachman '88-'89, Anjen Chen '90, Jennifer M. Choo '89, Jeffrey Clarke '89, Vanessa D. Lann '90, Joannie M. Schrof '88, Nina R. Schwalbe '88-'89 and Benjamin Waldman '89. The graduate students were Allison Stranger and Steve Solnick, and Assistant Professor of History Mark D. Steinberg...
...this retreat, away from the city where he desultorily practices law and enthusiastically philanders. Audrey, 51, ensconced for the season and steadily tippling vodka in the privacy of her own bedroom, feels a bit edgy over the arrival, a week earlier, of their unprepossessing son Bobby and the stranger he introduces as his new wife. Audrey wonders whether Lydia, nee Di Salvo, the daughter of a prosperous private trash collector, will be able to live up to the lofty standards of manners and deportment that prevail in the Graves family. Still, the weather is sunny and warm enough to soothe...
...annoyance at recent U.S. attempts to have those responsible extradited to the U.S. One afternoon, as a foreigner got up to leave Medellin's Macarena bullring, someone in the crowd shouted, "Hey, you, what about extradition?" It was an unfriendly, almost chilling challenge. The crowd parted to allow the stranger through and then closed ranks around the man again -- just as Medellin sometimes seems to shelter the wealthy cartel that has made the city the most dangerous in the world...