Word: blockful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...physics courses slipped to C's and D's in the new courses. Richard Knabel, an earth-science teacher in Yorktown, N.Y., complains that parents are so worried about getting their children into college that "it runs me up the wall-and the kids often have a block against real learning because all they worry about is grades...
...great in the sense we've always thought of it, the fabled block-buster whose legend was part of our earliest childhood, a gold-plated hunk of racial memory, but great as only a work of art can be. Twenty-eight years, and the machinations of Mao, Stokely, and the Beatles, have not diminished its emotional power...
...Rosenthal of New York City led aides and reporters to a supermarket for a personal check. Packaged goods were found to be mismarked, frozen foods were half thawed, and the manager admitted that after two days on the shelf, packaged meat was taken back to the butcher's block, repackaged, relabeled-and redated. In St. Louis, a test by the city health laboratory determined that hamburger purchased at a slum store was 26.5% fat compared with 18.5% fat in similar meat bought in a good neighborhood. Even a head of lettuce is often wearier and smaller in the slums...
Perfect Satyr. Erected between 50 and 69 A.D., the monument was discovered by the Gens brothers in 1965 beneath the shop basement. Exposing a large limestone block, they dug around it and discovered the perfectly preserved figure of a satyr chiseled in bas-relief on one side. Beneath the first block, they found a second, also carved. They called officials of Cologne's Roman-Germanic museum, who immediately bought the stones for $2,000 but explained that archaeological teams could not be spared at the moment to in vestigate the site. In the meantime, the museum officials, who have...
...team of amateur diggers sifted through every bucket of excavated earth, collecting more than 40 cartons of potsherds. As each block was recovered, its precise location was noted on a chart so that archaeologists could later determine exactly where the monument stood and how it fell. Eventually, the young archaeologists found and excavated 58 large blocks, which they then correctly reassembled into a section of the ancient monument on an undisturbed area of the basement floor...