Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hurricane Diane crashed through-flooding and wrecking the few coal mines that remained. It was almost the death blow. Most of the mines never reopened, and 16% of Hazleton's working force was unemployed. But the next year proved to be Hazleton's turning point-for the better...
Fresh Sudanese dates cost 25?, and 50? buys a look at the recently discovered 1,000-year-old Sudanese Madonna. You can watch a New York harnessmaker make a saddle and West Virginians blow glass. At the Singer exhibit, you can see jeweled woolen fabrics that cost $1,200 a yard. You can walk through the African pavilion, see Watusi dancers and royal Burundi drummers and have your eyes opened to a dozen nations you never knew existed, and a year or so ago you were right...
...logic that forced South Bend, Ind., to open job-training schools: minimal relief for 6,900 workers let out by Studebaker Corp. last December would cost about $1,000,000 a year more than a big program to retrain them. Now, as a result of the economic blow that it suffered, South Bend is the patternmaker of a branch of U.S. education that could potentially enroll most of the nation's 4,000,000 unemployed...
...former high school for 61 hours a day. They start out by shuffling packs of 2-in. by 2-in. cards with a one-syllable word printed on one side and a picture on the other; they then go on to cards that must be phonetically arranged (low, row, blow). Some students have covered six grades in two months...
...Ceremony is a long-winded melodrama that can't decide which way to blow. Produced and directed by its star, Laurence Harvey, this film about a killer's escape from prison in Tangiers deplores the death penalty, sadistic bureaucrats, and nine out of ten cops. It adores condemned criminals and closeups. But whenever the camera can wrench itself away from Harvey's grab-bag morality and his own vulpine profile, the supporting actors prove their worth. As Harvey's brother, Robert Walker gives the kind of performance that starts fan clubs springing up, and Girl Friend...