Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unconventional, deeply spiritual approach to literature endeared him to generations of students, including Ohio Governor John Gilligan and the late novelist Edwin O'Connor. Students flocked to his courses in such numbers that O'Malley had to screen them for admission. Renowned for producing a prodigious crop of fellowship winners, the quiet bachelor once described his favorite pastime as "writing letters of recommendation...
Bountiful Days. Gone are the bountiful days of the 1960s, when the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization worried about how to dispose of a glut of food, and the U.S. Government paid its farmers not to plant crops. Now the world's food reserves are at their lowest since World War II, amounting to a mere 27 days of consumption. "We're just keeping our heads above water," observes FAO Official John Mollett. "But the margin of safety is decreasing. One big crop failure anywhere and it could be every country for itself." For most countries...
...case, the sextet navigated Gesualdo's twisting harmonies with usually precise intonation. The pitch problems that did crop up from time to time were invariably failures of individual singers to sustain difficult lines. Unfortunately, the sacred motets that opened the program suffered from exactly this type of difficulty, as did William Byrd's Mass for five voices. With only a single voice for each elaborate contrapuntal line, I Dilettanti were simply unable to maintain the warm blended tone they brought to the simpler, chordal passages...
...Guinea, Spínola created a MacArthur-like aura around himself. His bushy eyebrows, the flashing monocle in his right eye-an adornment he picked up in Berlin-the gloves, and the riding crop he invariably carried were as well known to Portuguese troops as MacArthur's corncob pipe had been to Marines and G.I.s in the South Pacific. Unlike MacArthur, however, he believed in cultivating the enlisted man, and he would pop from his helicopter in hazardous spots to see personally how the fighting was going...
Admittedly the super-sleek '74 edition of the Crimson thinclads has to be given the edge against an Army team that dropped a 90-78 decision to Manhattan last week. But Army has its share of 9.7 dash men and a bumper crop of under 15 second hurdlers, who could each be good for 15 points...