Word: bred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexican Americans - ranging in age from 14 to 25. The course, a one-month summer institute that has just been completed at City College of San Francisco, was unique. It was designed to send teach ers back to campus in the fall with a better understanding of the ghetto-bred stu dents in their classes...
...variety of earth life, such as Japanese quail, algae, sunflowers, pine seedlings, oysters, white mice and cockroaches?the last chosen because they are one of the hardiest insects known to man, having survived as a distinct genus for millions of years. All the organisms involved were painstakingly bred and raised in germ-free conditions. The mice, for example, were born by caesarean section in sterile surgery and raised in a sterile environment...
...World War II movie, an English Van Heflin both in costume and good spirits), the British soldier stops in the second act while realizing he shares the plight of the boy in the Belfast Jail, and when his girlfriend (Ann Sachs who is just lovely as a convent-bred girl with a heart of gold) closes the play with an angry indictment, The Hostage approaches a truth as trite as it is universal, one not to be easily dismissed...
Darryl F. Zanuck seized control of 20th Century-Fox in 1962 after a lot of nasty infighting; in five years he and his son Richard turned a single-year loss of $39.8 million into a single-year profit of $12.5 million. Success, naturally, bred envy. And envy gave rise to tales of dirty dealing, venality and grossness. Two years ago, the company gave the run of the lot to a freelance writer, John Gregory Dunne. Dunne could attend any meeting, drop in on any set. He would learn the truth, and the truth somehow would set 20th Century-Fox free...
...Responses. The report compared home-bred civil disturbances and those in 84 other countries, measured on a complex scale. On that scale, despite the American penchant for violence, the U.S. ranked below the midpoint, at 46th, in the severity of collective wrath...