Word: barrowful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perennially jobless Dad, without a tanner for a smoke, rages at hunger and helplessness, beats up nagging Mam, or stares at the wall. When the back rent piles up, it comes time for a "moonlight flit"-the household goods piled on a barrow and trundled at midnight to a vacant tenement in another slum...
...Cape Cod, birders chalked up two Razor-Billed Auks, six Ring-Necked Ducks, one Barrow's Golden-Eye, a rare, deep-Arctic male King Eider, two Clapper Rails, a Yellow-Breasted Chat, and an unprecedented 25 Pine Grosbeaks. In Cocoa, Fla., Veteran Birder Allan Cruickshank, one of the nation's foremost experts, claimed a record 191 species for his group, including the Fulvous Tree-Duck and two Brewer's Blackbirds...
Labor unions are frequently instrumental in spurring unity in a relatively unstable society, Lodge said. Also, since they cannot maintain loyalty exclusively by Western methods like collective bargaining when "the economic barrow of their membership is so shallow," the labor unions frequently become socially creative agencies, building self-help housing and running co-operatives...
Heading a five-man team financed by the Arctic Institute of North America, Columbia's Ralph S. Solecki focused his search on a desolate coastal plain 300 miles east of Point Barrow. There, he reasoned, a narrow coastal strip protected by mountains suggested a natural corridor for early nomads. "Like modern campers," said Solecki, "they liked to set themselves up in well-drained spots sheltered from the wind...
...first half the Harvard scrum completely dominated the play. The team of Barrow, Backus, and Goldstein over-whelmed the efforts of the College All-Stars, getting handily to the backs...