Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fertile valleys are filled with citrus groves voluptuous with fruit. California--"a place for some real nice livin'!" Woody, who never was able to stay still in one place too long, decides to make the pilgrimage and, sneaking out on his family, he hits the road. (Significantly, in the chapter of his book recounting his departure for California, Guthrie fails to mention his family--and his desertion of them...
...national chapter of the Black American Law Students Association has named Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to President Bok, the recipient of the Paul Robeson in recognition of his outstanding service to the minority community...
...Boston chapter of UFW the Harvard students are affiliated with is planning to send more protest delegations to the company despite the company's reaction Thursday...
Bankruptcy comes in two varieties. The milder is a proceeding under Chapter 13 of the federal Bankruptcy Act in which a federal district court acts rather like a consumer counseling service. It fixes a monthly amount that the debtor can pay, collects that sum and parcels it out among creditors according to an extended repayment plan. Straight bankruptcy is a more drastic proceeding: a court-appointed trustee takes charge of the debtor's assets, subject to certain exemptions, sells them and distributes the money among creditors...
Throughout the '70s his work-painting, sculpture and cockeyed hybrid -has provided a winding, mythic narrative about travel and exploration, circling back on a landscape choked with color and crammed with eccentric heroes. Each new show provides a fresh chapter. Ferrer's sources are often literary: Pigafetta's chronicle of Magellan's explorations, for instance. His materials are a parade of incongruities -neon tubes and stuffed anacondas, old dinghies and melting ice, dry leaves and wild-dog skins, plastic roses, canoes made of rusty wire, maps that turn into masks, and drums, beads, burlap...