Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The twenties and thirties saw the scandalously corrupt reign of cement baron and political boss Tom Pendergast, when Kansas City thrived on a depression economy of gambling, prostitution, and bootleg booze. Ricker establishes early on the pointlessness of trying to recapture that milieu: Big Joe Turner sings "I was standing...
BUT ANDERSON is no pain reliever. HE prides himself on demanding the American people sacrifice in order to overcome a "vile and ruthless enemy": what he calls "our excessive dependence on foreign oil." After tediously elaborating the magnitude of this familiar threat, he finally presents his one bold idea; one...
In the past, some census takers have hesitated to venture deep into the crowded, big-city neighborhoods in which a significant portion of the minority population lives. According to Maynard Jackson, Atlanta's black mayor, his city has been "cheated out of $11.7 million in federal aid and almost...
Ever since Sputnik was rocketed into space nearly 23 years ago, the heavens have become increasingly crowded.
Her reward is a scholarship to an adult-education institution where the Communists offer ideological instruction to workers who have the potential to become party functionaries. She is such a sweet, shy thing, and the school is so cold and so crowded with dominating personalities, that one thinks for a...