Word: cumberlands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Harvard duels Cornell for the right to become pretender to Dartmouth's throne, the Indians and Elis will be padding their statistics against lesser competition. Dartmouth plays Brown, Yale plays Columbia. It's like Georgia Tech against Cumberland, all over again...
...British, who love nothing better than a good crime story, responded enthusiastically. Harry was spotted almost simultaneously in Cornwall, Glamorgan, Cumberland, Great Yarmouth and Leicester, then on the Isles of Sheppey and Wight. He was reported hiding out at Tilbury Fort, at a girls' school in Essex, and with a terrorist Republican band in Ireland...
...left of Liberal. "We felt his continued membership would be a blot on the club's escutcheon," sniffed the group's secretary-elect. Their replacement was sufficiently weird: Mrs. Eleanor Bone, High Priestess of the Worshipful Coven of London Witches. Croaked the Liberal witch at her Cumberland cottage, called "Witchwood": "Poor Mr. Wilson. I didn't even cast a spell...
...that demand ever higher skills and more sophisticated minds, the poor, simply by standing still, are caught up in a kind of geometric regression. For the most part, they are those whom the welfare state never brushed, a residual minority tucked away in rural backwaters and urban ghettos: the Cumberland's dirt farmer, the Mississippi cotton chopper, the migrant farm worker in California's Imperial Valley, the illiterate Harlem dishwasher. They exist, as Michael Harrington wrote in The Other America, "beyond history, beyond progress, sunk in a paralyzing, maiming routine...
Writing Good. To help such people, who do not feel poor and who resist change in any form, the anti-poverty warriors face obstacles as impervious as the Cumberland's timber-topped mountains. To date, Washington has poured $1.2 billion into its Appalachia program, mostly for 3,350 miles of new roads; the aim is to lure new industries to Appalachian cities and give mountaineers ready access to the jobs thus created. But, as evidenced by the few person-to-person anti-poverty projects that have been launched thus far under the program, the challenges of transforming the mountaineer...