Word: booths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like Stuffing a Booth. Across the country, the fad of fatigue took hold. Boy Scouts loved it, though their adult leaders seldom kept up. College fraternities took to it with the same gusto with which they once stuffed telephone booths. In California 400 Marin County high school students set out, and 97 finished-including 16-year-old Diana Congdon, who covets a place among lady discus throwers in the 1964 Olympics and who walked the 50 miles in 13 hr. 29 min., toting an 8-lb. knapsack filled with a diminishing supply of candy, oranges and fresh clothes. In Burlington...
...council may have an effect as profound as anything since the days of Martin Luther," says Dr. Carroll L. Shuster of Los Angeles, an executive of the Presbyterian Church. Boston University's Professor Edwin Booth, a Methodist and church historian, is so impressed by what Pope John has started that he ranks him as "one of the truly great Popes of Roman Catholic history...
...Jacques, who pretend to be burglars tirelessly dividing loot à moi; à toi, à toi, à lui, until even a Kansas City house dick would get the idea. Hachette teaches the future tense in a setting where any other tense would be out of place: a fortuneteller's booth. To help learners catch elusive French intonation, Hachette uses another gimmick in the lesson on the interrogative: a violin trilling up to accent Dawn Addams' voice...
...stop there? Why not produce an historical dramatization with a similar format? Then we could all hear John Wilkes Booth talk on Lincoln, Adolf Hitler talk on Churchill, and Al Capone talk on Ness...
...ministry is fine therapy for some neurotics, argued New York Psychiatrist Gotthard Booth, who has been administering psychological tests to ministerial candidates for 24 years. Since the fulfillment of the deep need that impelled them to seek the ministry often has a balancing effect on mentally disturbed ministers, said Dr. Booth, many churchmen find in clerical garb "an ambulatory sanitarium." But a good minister, said Dr. Brown, may operate successfully while driving his wife "to the brink of psychosis and his children into neurotic reactions." Concluded Booth reassuringly: "There is some evidence that serious 'nervous breakdowns' occur less...