Word: cold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...especially vital. But the onrush of newcomers, especially in California, has raised environmental worries and brought new sympathy for conservation. There may be more resistance to sweeping energy saving in the Midwest, where farms grow on gas and the auto industry looms large, and in the South, where cold is rarely a concern and tourism means money. Yet even in fuel-rich Texas, presumably set in its freewheeling ways, local Pollster John Staples found after Carter's presentation that more people approved his energy approach than opposed it. Nearly half said they would buy a smaller car if the price...
...strange in some ways. The people talk like books here and it's cold: both the people and the weather," Aubrey Jackson Jr. from Pine Bluff, Arkansas said yesterday. Jackson added that he plans to attend Harvard "but I'm not going to kiss the ground or anything...
...there were a few bright spots in this cold, rainy week, too. The Harvard and Radcliffe crews swept their varsity races on the Charles Saturday, although the men's lights needed some help from a crab. The women's lacrosse team continued its hot play, winning its sixth straight game. And, last but not least, the fledgling women's track team won its first varsity meet ever--83-35 on a cold, wet Brown track...
...Yale only competes with Harvard in athletics," Samuel Elliot Morrison once said, but Yale could not even do that yesterday as the Harvard track team demolished Yale, 106 to 48, on a wet and cold day in New Haven...
There are strange misproportions too. High Noon, as a parable of the cold war, merits a paragraph. Mark Twain's career is summed up in a sentence. Chief Joseph's picture is in the book, but not his moving farewell to his Nez Perce Indians: "I will fight no more forever." The Great Republic has long and genuinely informative passages on demographics -but too often the people are simply numbers, without faces or names...