Word: boon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majority of one would have had the weight of a landslide. The 19th District in northwest Detroit has sent only Democrats to the state house of representatives since the district was formed in 1953. The reputation of Hoffa pere, which might have been fatal in many constituencies, was a boon in the 19th, with its large population of union members, many of whom feel the imprisoned Teamster boss got a bum rap. The Teamsters and the United Auto Workers went all out to elect young Hoffa, who even won kind words from Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Senator Robert Kennedy...
...married couples whose religious beliefs interpose no moral problem, the pill is indeed a boon. Biologists have computed that under a dictum of St. Augustine, permitting "only those sexual relations which are necessary to procreation," a man could not expect to have intercourse more than 55 times in his life. But the late Alfred C. Kinsey's studies indicated that the average American has intercourse 5,500 times, leaving coitus with procreative intent at a mere 1%. Dr. S. Leon Israel of the University of Pennsylvania believes that this is ten times too high-that conception is specifically planned...
...most enthusiastic endorsement of FPC came last week from Vice President Hubert Humphrey, speaking as chairman of a new national council on marine resources. He called the development of fish flour "a tremendous breakthrough in the war on hunger," and added: "It may be the greatest boon to mankind in helping to give him a sound body and a sound mind since, I guess, the beginning of time." To spread the wealth of fish flour, the U.S. will help three protein-starved nations, as yet unnamed, to set up pilot plants for its production...
Poetry, friends, can be a boon companion, can lead us beside the still waters, can wrap us in its colors to keep us warm. Lately it has fallen out of use, especially modern poetry. In the wake of "The Waste Land," many young folk suppose that all modern verse will be a dead tree yielding no shelter; they assume, perhaps by association, it will be, not only esoteric, but also the voice of old age (or premature...
...pressures of mankind: groves of gracefully pirouetting pines, solemn stands of cedar, miniaturized terraces redolent of tangerines and tea. A bone-rattling bus ride from Nagoya can put a harried city dweller aboard a boat on the Gifu River, where-with a giant bottle of sake and the boon companionship of a river geisha-he can watch the cormorant fisherman sweep downstream...