Word: cups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dark-paneled courtroom in Raleigh, N.C., the 21-year-old black defendant testified in a voice that was so low that jurors often had to cup their ears to catch her words. She clutched a tissue but broke down in tears only once. Otherwise, Joan Little remained remarkably self-possessed through two days of painful testimony and crossexamination, sticking stoutly to her story that she had been defending herself from rape when she stabbed white Jailer Clarence Alligood to death with an ice pick in the Beaufort County Jail in Washington...
...firecrackers. Now is the season of bees, wasps and gypsy moths. Indeed, U.S. mail carriers are used to finding all manner of surprises in the 25 million home mailboxes that line America's roads. But whether citizens leave a week-old baby boy (as once happened) or a cup of steaming coffee in winter (as often happens), it is all illegal. Though a man's home may be his castle and though he must buy and maintain his mailbox, its interior space essentially belongs to Uncle...
...still in her teens, Jill Kinmont had won two important ski competitions and dreamed of qualifying for the 1956 Olympics. In 1955 she skied off the side of a mountain during the Snow Cup Race. She nearly died, and survival was hardly a mercy. Her neck was broken, her spinal cord damaged and her body paralyzed from the shoulders down. But Jill Kinmont (fetchingly played here by Newcomer Marilyn Hassett) vowed that she would recover as fully as possible...
...last week, the General Foods Corp. hiked its wholesale prices for grocery brands (including Maxwell House) by 20? per Ib. for ground coffee and 3? per oz. for freeze-dried and instant. Other wholesalers planned similar increases. Some experts fear the price of a cup of coffee in New York could double...
...political beliefs expressed in its manifestoes. Its ideal was to promote egalitarian social conditions by providing visual continuity at every level of life. For example, a perfect start to a Bauhaus day would be to wake up in the morning to coffee in a mass-produced coffee cup designed to blend pleasantly with that day's newspaper type, whose forms in turn would intermesh smoothly with the rest of the Kitchen, the house--in short, the world, Waking to that well-designed harmony, you were expected to feel one, good, and two, part of a universal humanity. Considering the social...