Word: camel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proverbial "straw that broke the camel's back" was Federal District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity's busing order of 1973. From the start the vast majority of white Bostonians, and many blacks as well, were opposed to the plan. Others were ambivalent. Very few were in favor. We all asked the same question...
...there were the bizarre encounters with young dancing girls and camel-boys as Crosby and his wife, Caresse, journeyed to Egypt, on a pilgrimage to the Sun. There...
...concert, they publicly criticized him for demanding what was then an astronomical fee. Money was only one bone of contention, though. As Stokowski's salary went up, he demanded that the number of concerts scheduled each season drop, inciting the anger of management. The straw that broke the camel's back was Stokowski's insistence on programming contemporary works: he viewed the well-subscribed concert series as an ideal opportunity to expose audiences to music that record stores couldn't sell and radios wouldn't air. But unfortunately Philadelphia was a city of old-blood lawyers and clergymen, where music...
...perhaps including cancer. Pursuing such research, biologists are naturally loath to become ensnared in more Government regulations. They point out that governmental regulation poses inherent dangers to the freedom of inquiry that science requires. Comments Biochemist Robert White of the National Academy of Sciences: "I hate to see the camel's nose under the tent...
...easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven...