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Topic: Friendlies


In the News (Wed 3 Dec 08)

  
  Australia - Encyclopedia FunTrivia
Australia lost 1-0 in Tel Aviv and then drew 1-1 in Sydney.
After the World Cup, the Aussies defeated Israel 1-0 in Tel Aviv in a friendly.
Uruguay overcame a one goal deficit from the Australian leg of the series and won 3-0 in Montevideo.
www.funtrivia.com /en/Sports/Australia-5629.html   (1236 words)

  
 ACS - American Cetacean Society
Frequently visible from shore, gray whales provide a unique opportunity for land and boat observation, and commercial whale watching has become a major industry along its migration route.
Visitors to the calving and breeding lagoons sometimes encounter the phenomenon of the "friendlies"; gray whales that closely approach small boats and allow themselves to be touched by humans.
Gray whales have a streamlined body, with a narrow, tapered head.
www.acsonline.org /factpack/graywhl.htm   (987 words)

  
 The Hollywood Blacklist
Hellman and writers such as Lester Cole and Walter Bernstein have been unforgiving of those who cooperated.
In similar fashion, Elia Kazan insists in his autobiography, A Life (1988), that he did no wrong in being a friendly witness even though he writes movingly about the traumatic effect the testimony had on his life and that of others who were called before HUAC.
Individuals such as Albert Maltz and Jules Dassin have commented on the terrible cost of broken relationships and upended careers with varying degrees of forgiveness for the "friendlies." Dalton Trumbo has been the most generous in this regard by rendering his final judgment that "we were all victims."
www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/blacklist.html   (2611 words)

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