Word: breed
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...villain is a voracious capitalist, the American John Osborne, who deals in a unique commodity, sables. Pound for pound the animals are worth more than gold, but they are caged a world away from Western fur markets. Osborne intends to smuggle his live cargo across the border Hand breed them in the U.S. All 5 who interfere are terminated with 1 extreme prejudice...
Whether blacks and whites actually have something to gain from social integration is yet to be proved. It is all very well to mumble about the glorious prospect of cultural exchange, but no one is sure that such exchanges breed enhancement. A loftier argument is that the nation, as a whole, would be improved. Perhaps. The old democratic vista of Whitman and Emerson, the transcendentalist democracy of one for one and one for all sounds quite fine; it always has. Since that goal has never been achieved, however, one may argue that it is simply another tenet of American hypocrisy...
...1960s. Back then, in fact, he marched regularly in the streets of Berkeley, Calif., taking part in civil rights and antiwar demonstrations. Despite his casual look, Herbert Wayne Boyer is a millionaire many times over, at least on paper. More important, he is in the forefront of a new breed of scientist-entrepreneurs who are leading gene splicing out of the university laboratory and into the hurly-burly of industry and commerce...
...goalies are a confident breed. "I've played enough so that I know what I'm doing," he said before leaving for Princeton yesterday. "I've been mentally ready. Wade's been hot, but these things happen, and I think...
Foot's message to the increasingly restive extreme of his party was the same then as it is now: cool it. But it is falling for the most part on deaf ears. Even Foot, a firebrand himself in his youth, has been overtaken by a new breed of militant British leftists. They are mostly youthful, largely middle-class ideologues who habitually spout Marx, Lenin and Trotsky but shun Soviet-style Communism. Combining pie-in-the-sky visions of a British Utopia with a pragmatic flair for nuts-and-bolts political organizing, they have driven a wedge deep into...