Word: boons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When an Afrikaner looks at a girl and sighs, "Ah, a 38!" he is less apt to be ogling statistics than calculating calibers. More than 27,000 white women in South Africa these days belong to pistol clubs, and many thousands more go armed. The latest boon for pistol-packing mommas is a lightweight leather holster that clips on any brassiere and facilitates an Instant Oakley draw in case of trouble...
Imperial Typewriter, which already has orders from 14 countries, hopefully sees the Musikriter as a great boon to composers, music publishers, orchestras, music libraries and schools...
...memories, and committed enough to concrete personal goals not to reach after flimsy national destinies. Most important, the holiday we will go through the motions of celebrating next week no longer represents the spirit and values of the nation. Americans regard affluence as a birthright, not a providential boon. There is no point in our communing with an impoverished past as long as we keep on getting richer...
Thus the CRIMSON haruspex will examine the entrails of departed students to suggest courses for the coming term. The most basic courses--Economics 1, Mathematics 1, Government 1--are evident even to the untutored eye. But many less obvious, although not obscure offerings might be a boon to those who seek outside their own field for edification. It is these our seer has descried...
Whether to beg a boon or pick a bone, the man of action has always known where to go and whom to complain to. Job, for example, went straight to the top, while others took their problems to lesser officials, settled, like Juliet, for a friar; like Aladdin, for a genie; like Oedipus, for an oracle; or like Dorothy, for an available wizard. It is only modern man-charged with an item he did not purchase, in arrears on accounts he has long since paid, his mail misdirected, his drains stopped up, toaster broken or license expired-who does...