Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farm families. Still, the question of regulation of cigarettes goes much beyond economics and has, in fact, created a curious liberal-conservative polarity. The conservative Dallas News accuses "the liberals in Washington" of crusading for "censorship, pure and simple." Adds the New York Daily News: "Nuts to you, Big Brother...
...further reduced its value. Consumer spending, instead of declining 1.9% last year as the government had intended, rose by 1.2%. Wages also rose by 7% last year and prices by 6%, despite government efforts to control both. The government undermined its own wage-restraint policies by agreeing to a big raise for workers on the government-owned railways...
...sure, Le Clézio asks big questions, such as What is Life? with an earnest lyric gift. At times he captures the bubble-like transiency of youth with touching Gallic elan ("Who wrote 'I love you' on a cigarette paper and then smoked it? Who picked a flower and put it in a glass of water? Who ate a vanilla ice on September 14, 1966, at twenty-five minutes to midnight, thinking that it was an eternal ice-cream cone, an eternal ice, an eternal yellow-white flavour?"). He is also adept at playing those "In" games...
Last year, the golfers went into the Cornell match at Ithica with the same winning record. The Cornell squad had an undefeated record, but Harvard solved their course and walked over the Big...
Since several games were rained out, three other teams are also undefeated, but remain a half game behind Princeton's pace. Cornell established itself as a top contender for the title when it walloped Navy 10-0. Joining the Big Red in the tie for second are Columbia, victorious over the Cadets, and Dartmouth, with a 6-4 triumph at Brown...