Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Binaisa's downfall was not unexpected. After taking over from Yusufu Lule, Amin's first successor, who was deposed after only ten weeks, the chubby lawyer barely survived a string of no-confidence motions brought against him in the country's parliament. The immediate cause of Binaisa's overthrow was his attempt to dismiss Brigadier David Oyite Ojok as army chief of staff, reportedly because Ugandan troops, ordered to conduct house-to-house searches for arms in Kampala, had looted many of the homes. Troops loyal to Ojok quickly seized the radio station in Kampala...
...size from Guernica, Picasso's 26-ft.-wide mural of protest against the fascist bombing of a Basque town during the Spanish Civil War, to a cluster of peg dolls he painted for his daughter Paloma. Paintings, drawings, collages, prints of every kind, sculpture in bronze, wood, wire, tin, string, paper and clay; there was virtually no medium the Spaniard did not use, and all are profusely represented...
After playing second string last season behind the now-graduated First, Lechner vowed to make the very most of senior year. He wanted to be Harvard's starting goalie, and he paid the price...
...prominently displayed, 15 to 20 male cadets lounge in a colonel's big staff house. Across the way in Eisenhower Hall the autumn cadet hop is about to get under way. Spirits are very dampened by the afternoon's 55-0 football game, the latest in a string of defeats for the once proud Army team. Why are these cadets not sharing the misery at the dance? "What's the use?" says one, dejected. "There are about 700 men for every girl who will be there alone." The reporter asks, "Why were there no women cadets...
...married his first wife, a bright, game girl named Eileen O'Shaughnessy. One of the delights of this sensitive, intelligent book is its portrayal of Eileen and of her importance to Orwell's new identity. In their first summer together, they kept a sparse little shop (candy, string, tea, flour) in a country village, gardening and tending goats and chickens while Orwell worked on Wigan Pier. Through all his later years of anguished achievement and fame, write the authors, "the happiness of that long-ago summer would never be recaptured...