Word: countryful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The lanky, blond, Provo, Utah, native charged home uncontested in the last 75 yards to finish at 2:07.45, almost a full second under the old University mark. His time may well be the best in the country so far this season.
CULTURAL developments abroad are not ignored. The 1988 Tirana (Albania) World's Fair, with no outsiders allowed to enter the country, "a less-than-celebratory spirit of secrecy and suspicion evidently hovered":
Of course, the special-interest dominated Congress, which, among other things, offered statehood to Norway and prohibited the importation into the United States of prunes, shredded wheat, ice skates, bow ties and corduroy, was the last straw for conventional American government. An angry mob forced the "Horrible Hundredth" Congress out...
This is why Veterans Day felt so uncomfortable this time around. We all realize how much its meaning has been undermined by our recent military experiences, and we don't know how to deal with the discrepancy. But deal with it we must, for a problem that is not confronted...
Instead think about the ideology that forced us into Vietnam, of the terrible problems that developed while we were there, and of the new attitudes we held once we got out. Think about how these attitudes can change our country for the better, and think of how you can act...