Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...water. In 19th century America, "water witches" grew as plentiful as traveling medicine men, ready, for a fee, to point out a potential water hole. As handy as dowsers seem to have been for many a parched landholder, the practice eventually fell victim to the new scientific age. Science abhors a mystery, especially one with a maddeningly practical application. Modern hydrologists and the U.S. Geological Survey long ago rejected talk of water "veins" as nonsense and declared that dowsing was about as reliable as a roulette wheel. Dowsers naturally began to feel a bit beleaguered...
...want their dams approved before Election Day, and some of them have sent word to the White House that they might abandon the celebrated gas compromise if the President persists in his opposition. But Carter says he will not back down whatever the political cost. "If we continue the age-old policy of pork-barrel allocations in the public works bill," he said at his press conference, the Administration would be setting a "horrible example" for the rest of the nation in the effort to control inflation. If Congress overrides his veto-a distinct possibility -Carter can still claim that...
...real-life rewriting of the age-old verse, there was no joy in Beantown Monday as mighty Yastrzemski had popped...
...University has made no concessions on benefits, the issue of central concern to most of the kitchen workers. Harvard now provides the dining hall workers with absurdly low pension payments--$90 a month after 25 years of service, and a 10 per cent reduction if a worker retires before age 62, and did not improve the pension plan in the contract offer. Nor does the contract increase Blue Cross coverage or offer a dental health plan. In addition, the workers want a clearer commitment to affirmative action by the University, especially at the managerial level, where minorities are still underrepresented...
James MacGregor Burns '47 tackles this age-old debate with remarkable vigor. Burns, a Pulitzer Prize winner, has long been fascinated by leaders, and much of his life's work has prepared him for writing Leadership. His biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Woodrow Wilson, and of two Kennedy brothers have won him wide acclaim. But Burns has been more than a dispassionate observer; in 1958 he ran for Congress, and he has haunted Democratic national conventions for the past two decades...