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Word: bigs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Specific problems of commercial SSTs--including fire danger from the vast fuel load, vulnerability to poor weather conditions, and the limited number of emergency airports that could handle the big SSTs...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Here Comes the Boom | 2/13/1969 | See Source »

...honesty was this they were discovering? Was Esalen selling them a pack of lies about themselves that would send them back to the real world and sustain them for the next few days, or weeks--until they ran out of steam and had to come back to the Big Sur to be recharged...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Into the Center of the Circle | 2/13/1969 | See Source »

...SECOND big event of Monday came during the evening session of the boy's group. This was to be the structure of all the days there: small group sessions--usually about three hours long--in the morning and at night, and large group work in the late afternoon...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: In the New Pastures of Heaven | 2/12/1969 | See Source »

...teacher, but he did not know it at the time, so when the old woman began to claw away at the circle, literally to tear people's arms apart, the boy was more than a little amazed. In the process of fighting to keep her out, he injured his big toe; someone kicked the nail, which tore off, and the toe started of bleed. But the boy hung on, until Jessica finally made it in and, finding herself suddenly in the middle, burst out in that same expression of indescribable joy that the boy had seen in Elizabeth and Susie...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: In the New Pastures of Heaven | 2/12/1969 | See Source »

...rain had stopped and after a while, the underbrush thinned and the climbing became easier. The boy climbed around some big rocks and, coming to the top of one, sat down to rest and clean out his boots. He looked down at a crack in the rock by his side. A green rose...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: In the New Pastures of Heaven | 2/12/1969 | See Source »

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