Word: breadths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every Injustice. Sinclair came from a shabby-genteel Maryland family, absorbing from that background both a breadth of interests and a sympathy for other havenots. He helped support himself in college by peddling jokes to newspapers for $1 each. He ground out several pulp novels before The Jungle, and he read even faster than he wrote: in one two-week Christmas holiday, he got through all of Shakespeare's plays and Milton's poetry...
...remains the area where allied officers consider the enemy threat to be greatest. Last week lead elements of the North Vietnamese 320th Division were back in I Corps after a June retreat north across the DMZ, keeping up the pressure in clashes with U.S. soldiers and Marines across the breadth of Quang Tri province. The Americans, joined by South Vietnamese infantrymen, chased North Viet Nam regulars two miles into the DMZ, killing...
...descended on the sabon garris (strangers' quarters), the home in almost every Northern city of job-hunting Ibo settlers, slaughtering as they went. The Northerners used everything from shotguns to poison arrows in their slaughter of the Ibos, and they roamed the length and breadth of cities to take them...
...from Washington's Brookings Institution found that British industry is riddled with inefficiency. U.S. factories are rated at 100, said the study, British factories rate only 66 -behind plants in Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, West Germany and France. British executives, said the Brookings report, often "lack breadth as well as technical training," while unions cling to restrictive practices and refuse to tame wild cat strikes...
...resolution doesn't specify who decides how much breadth is possible and it could therefore become meaningless. Dean Glimp indicated last week that he would favor some restrictions to prevent the Office of Graduate and Career Plans from becoming "a clearing house for debates with gurus...