Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much. But when the final report on school goals came out with 14 vague and diffuse points-e.g., respect and appreciation for human values-the six were moved to protest. The 14 points, they said, "were presented with no analysis of their relative importance or their practicability . . . The blanket praise given to 'the schools' as 'better than ever before' is not consistent with the catastrophic decline in many schools of science and mathematics, subjects now basic to the very survival of Western civilization." Vested Interest. Topic 4-How can we get enough good teachers...
...flood of lance-waving horsemen surge across a meadow; agile warriors skip and pirouette in a whirling of two-handed blades; the defeated topple, with blood bursting between their clenched teeth. The struggle ends in far-off shouting as mists steal down from the mountains to draw a pale blanket over the slain...
Last week goo people crowded into St. James' Episcopal church for Bill Woodward's funeral; thousands more stood outside on Madison Avenue. His widow, still too upset to attend the services, sent a blanket of white chrysanthemums dotted with red carnations, a floral expression of Belair's racing colors-white, red spots, scarlet cap. An inscribed ribbon with this sent through the Woodward connection a slight shudder, quickly repressed by family loyalty. Recalling Ann and Bill's pet names for each other, it read: "From Dunk to Monk...
...against high prices, low wages, and the sight of luxury in its midst. Trying to call off a mob from burning a Greek church, a Turkish woman lawyer, Surreya Agaoglu, shouted from her balcony that the marauders were endangering their own homes. "What have we to lose but a blanket and a pot?" came a harridan's screech from the mob. "You wait in your fine home. Your turn will come!" By then it was poor against rich...
...peninsulas have now been cut off with eight-foot walls. A typical one, Punto Salinas, 73 miles north of Lima, has 70 acres of birds. Mostly black-and-white guanays (cormorants), they stand wing to wing like a rippling blanket. Though the colony was established only this year, it already numbers some 2,500,000 birds. Other shore colonies are growing as fast, and some of them allow the birds to exploit parts of the fish-rich sea they could not reach before...