Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forbidding Virgin Lands of Central Asia, where Khrushchev set out in 1954 to create a vast new granary, erosion now threatens to turn millions of acres into a dust bowl; most of the new croplands last year failed even to return their seed grain. His hasty campaign to plow under fallow grasslands has impaired huge areas of once-fertile soil since 1958. Khrushchev's evangelical efforts in 1961 to promote mass sowing of corn did more harm than good, as he himself admitted at the meeting...
...congressional ceremony on March 29, 1949, James Forrestal, retiring as the first Secretary of Defense, received a silver bowl and many plaudits: "A long and brilliant career . . . outstanding talents . . . one of the best analytical minds." A few hours after the ceremony, one of Forrestal's aides found him back at a spare office in the Pentagon, sitting in a rigid position, staring at the bare wall opposite. When the worried aide tried to talk to him, Forrestal said only: "You are a loyal fellow." When Forrestal went home, he seemed bewildered by the fact that he no longer...
Niederhoffer has never beaten Salaun in tournament play, and the veteran has been the only amateur to beat Niederhoffer this year. Salaun also topped Vic in the Middlesex Bowl Squash Tournament during Christmas vacation...
...classrooms of the movie theater begins with the lesson that love is a violin. Soon the moviegoer learns that modern jazz means trouble in the streets and that war is brass with cymbals. Worry and fear are both cellos, bravery is a trumpet call, and God is the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra. Film fans once trusted such associations implicitly, like cobras listening for their charmer's clarinet, but lately they have been startled by the sound of surprise. The new and higher esthetic of the film has made a greater range of emotion and circumstance available to Hollywood...
Mistaken Impression. Daughter of a U.S. forest ranger, Jean Saubert, 21, learned to ski from her father, who took her to Sun Valley, Idaho, for two weeks' vacation once a year. The family settled in Cascadia, Ore., just 40 miles from Hoodoo Ski Bowl, and by the time she was 14, Jean was good enough to win the slalom at the National Junior Championship in Reno. But it is a long way from the junior championships to the Olympics, and nobody paid much attention when she finished sixth in the giant slalom...