Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been that way ever since he dropped out of the University of Colorado in 1956 and went on a solitary expedition of discovery. It took him to art school in Paris, carried him through the rest of the Continent, and deposited him with a bump back in the States 13 months later. "It was a black period for me," he recalls. "I didn't know what the hell I wanted to do, except get out of California. I'd grown up there, but I always had this image in my head of living in New York...
Inevitably, there were those who, while not denying the deed, felt it would be better left untold. After a G.I. witness described on television what he had seen at My Lai, Colorado Senator Peter Dominick asked: "What kind of country do we have when that kind of garbage gets put on the air?" A more pertinent question was raised by William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "This incident can cause grave concern all over the world," he said, "as to what kind of country we are." Countless U.S. citizens, whether foes or critics...
...Soviet farmers at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, the author of And Quiet Flows the Don drew a parallel between literature and collective farming in Russia. "We also have bumper and lean years," he said, "but you farmers have done away with pests, while we, unfortunately, still have Colorado beetles-those who eat Soviet bread but who want to serve Western bourgeois masters and send their works there through secret channels. Soviet men of letters want to get rid of them." In equating Solzhenitsyn with Colorado beetles, Sholokhov reminded some Soviet citizens of the episode in which Moscow accused...
...Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, and most recently, Delaware have adopted liberalized abortion laws. But generally hospitals refuse out-of-state patients to avoid becoming abortion meccas...
...Born in Colorado and raised in New Mexico. Stauder grew up as the son of a rancher. At high school he participated in the drama and the speech clubs. Stander was editor of the school newspaper and in his junior year, he represented his class on a rinky-dink Student Council. Good marks and extra-curricular activities landed him in Harvard despite the disadvantage of coming from a public high school in the Southwest, and having no family history at the College...