Word: burning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When these incentives did not enable local officials to meet their quotas, they turned to harsher means. In Katauli, several young men without children were ordered sterilized. A tea-shop owner was ordered to submit to a vasectomy, "or we will burn down your shop." He agreed, even though his wife was past the childbearing age. In Delhi, a man of 25 agreed to be sterilized in order to receive medical treatment at a hospital. After a police attack on the Muslim village of Uttawar, southwest of Delhi, 800 vasectomies were performed-giving Uttawar, as the Indian Express noted...
...complaint made about Elizabeth Bishop's poetry is that there is not more of it. The Complete Poems (1969) filled only about 200 pages, with margins to spare. Geography III adds ten more poems to the Bishop canon, and there are more than a few poets who would burn their manuscripts to have written one of them...
Finally, and most poignant of all, was Jurado's tragedy, also at the 17th...One thought of all sorts of mistakes he might make but one never dreamed of the one he did make, when he popped the ball into the burn off the tee, more or less in front of his nose. It was terribly sad, for he is a splendid little man (he does not weigh 10 stone) and had played splendidly courageous golf, full of smiling excitement but always keeping control of himself. I wish these horrid things were not inevitable in championships...
...genius was always in her reactions to things. Some small outrage would happen by, and Mary, a Bert Lahr born lovely, would do a fine, slow burn, her indignation developing like a Polaroid "Oh, Mr. Grant...
...gentle way, the show changed television's image of women. During the pleistocene era of Ozzie and Harriet or Donna Reed, the women, in skirts curiously bouffant for housework, had to make their witticisms in or near the kitchen, lest the chocolate-chip cookies burn. Mary Tyler Moore, playing Rob Petrie's wife on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-66), wore tighter dresses but was a thoroughly suburban housewife: Rob went to work, Laura worried about the pet duck catching cold...