Word: dens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frogs, toads and salamanders also migrate, if only a mile or two. Many snakes go into something like hibernation; to find the best location for doing so, they move short distances, seeking not a change of climate but a warm spot for the winter. In one choice den in an anthill in Manitoba, 257 snakes of three species were once found...
...W.C.C. explains that its money will go for welfare, not warfare, though Director of Communications Albert van den Heuvel admits that "these two aspects may sometimes overlap." He says that the W.C.C. is not endorsing revolutionary violence, but it no longer rules out aid to "antiracist organizations." In recent years, many liberal Protestants have been moving in two directions at once. Despite their growing opposition to the use of American arms in Viet Nam, they have come to accept violence when used by "oppressed peoples." Thus the grants should have come as no surprise. Last year a W.C.C. sponsored conference...
...Park Slope section of Brooklyn. His elaborate renovation plans change abruptly when he meets his new tenants, including a black free-school teacher (Melvin Stewart), a former Miss Sepia (Diana Sands), her eight-year-old son (Douglas Grant) and slightly deranged husband (Louis Gosset), and a worldly-wise den mother (Pearl Bailey) who feeds Elgar soul food and introduces him around. Friendships form fast. Elgar falls in love with a black painter and part-time go-go dancer (Marki Bey), then has a brief but pregnant liaison with Miss Sepia. But Elgar has been more hypnotized than radicalized...
...guide" University decision-making with respect to institutional expansion in Roxbury. This committee approved and reiterated proposals that Harvard adequately maintain and repair safety hazards in tenants' apartments, and that it immediately rent other vacant homes in the area to prevent an already fragmented res?den??l community from failing hopelessly apart?. Yet it was not until last month-eight months after the recommendation-that Harvard completed a safety survey of its medical area apartments and began to act on the committee's recommendation of hazard repair and rental of vacant-homes...
...when King Darius pulls the unharmed Daniel from the lions' pit and throws in Daniel's accusers instead, the King James Version reports dryly: "The lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den." The N.E.B. version: "Before they reached the floor of the pit the lions were upon them and crunched them up, bones...