Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history as if painted by a sidewalk sketch artist, relying on calcified profiles of the principal signers of the Declaration of Independence rather than searching character penetration. The score might have led Van Gogh to dispose of his remaining ear, and a brigade of crippled pigeons could have performed better dance numbers...
MOST people sense a peculiarly bitter injustice in the fact that the arrival of spring, with all its pleasures, coincides so harshly with the time of the Big Bite, better known as Income Tax Day. For some journalists, however, the pains and problems that arrive inexorably on April 15 are at least mildly alleviated by the opportunity to complain in print about the assorted inequities of the U.S. tax structure-and to suggest remedies as well...
...land. "I wanted to take a piece of ground like this that had been sort of worn out through improper use and try to restore it," he said a few years ago. "I just said that when I die I'm going to leave a piece of ground better than I found...
...journey could be measured better in years than in miles or hours. As the nine-car train rumbled through Appalachian passes, it would cross decades of U.S. expansion as well?the scarred hills of West Virginia, the black earth of Illinois, the railroad yards of St. Louis and Kansas City. When it reached the prairies of Abilene, it would arrive in another era. In spirit, if not in time, the contemporary chapel on the grounds of the Eisenhower Center where he will be buried was not so distant from the Abilene he knew as a youth...
...beaches of Sicily, pushed up through Southern Italy, then finally prepared to attack Hitler's Festung Europa itself. Target: Normandy. D-day was set for June 5, 1944, but bad weather over the English Channel, the worst in years, forced postponement. There was only a tiny gleam of hope?better weather forecast for the 6th?and Eisenhower made the most momentous decision of his career...