Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bottom of it." He paused for a minute, and a lovely green mountain floated into the boy's mind and settled in place. "If you look carefully, you can see a cave halfway up the mountain," Steve went on. "But there is a door on the cave. As I count from one to ten, I want you to climb up the mountain to that door. One . . ." In a flash the boy stood in front of the door. No, that was too fast. He forced himself back down the mountain. "Four . . . Now you can make out a handle on the door...
...Would you believe Harvard has THREE--count them--THREE Military Departments? We have the Army (as you well know), the Navy, and the UNITED STATES AIR FORCE. Imagine that! "ROT-C" is somewhat difficult to generalize and simplify, just like everything else in life! On that score, see "To Live With Complexity" by Dean Franklin L. Ford, Harvard Today, Autumn 1968. But then, who really cares about facts or intellectual honesty. Lets get rid of the fascist-pig-warmongers, let George worry about National Security, and give attention to something serious, like parietals...
...surviving in a world in which "we drift through time, clutching at straws." And, when Stoppard shows us part of Hamlet's final scene, the English Ambassador's pronouncement "that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead" elicits the audience realization that death may be the only event it can count on in an insane universe...
...plate glass, has extensive interests in chemicals, nuclear energy, cardboard and paper. The company has annual sales of glass and other products totaling $1 billion, almost five times BSN's. But Saint-Gobain's current reputation glitters less than its history. Under the presidency of Count Arnaud de Vogüé, 64, the company lagged behind BSN in adopting the float-glass process that revolutionized glassmaking a decade ago. On the other hand, BSN, which was formed when two firms merged in 1966, had eagerly adopted new management and production techniques under its wiry president, Antoine Riboud...
...mind. At 15, he admits, he did not have the slightest idea what he wanted to do, and he left home because he was "a bit flighty." His first job was burgling. From that he graduated to ice cream salesman, crane driver, and 45 other different jobs (by his count). He now has seven children and is married to the mother of two of them. "When I'm rich enough," he says, "I hope to get all my kids and their mothers into one house with my wife and me and our kids, and we shall all live together...