Word: dies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poverty is a psychological process which destroys the young before they can live and the aged before they can die," says Yale Psychologist Ira Goldenberg. "It is a pattern of hopelessness and helplessness, a view of the world and oneself as static, limited and irredeemably expendable. Poverty, in short, is a condition of being in which one's past and future meet in the present ? and go no further...
...die-hard School Committeemen such as James Fitzgerald, who oppose the portable classrooms per se, may attempt to block approval of these sites. The School Committee should ignore them, and accept Harvard's offer. If there is to be a final round in the portable classrooms fight, it should be fought in the open, when the City debates the appropriation for the classrooms. The quibble over site selection is now pointlessly delaying the construction of the new Houghton School...
...Miramichi River. In this process, rain washes the DDT off the ground and into the plankton of lakes and streams. Fish eat the DDT-tainted plankton; the pesticide becomes concentrated in their bodies, and the original dose ultimately reaches multifold strength in fish-eating birds, which then often die or stop reproducing. DDT is almost certainly to blame for the alarming decrease in New England's once flourishing peregrine falcons, northern red-shouldered hawks and black-crowned night herons...
...together, the lovers pay with their lives, leaving behind the shining triumph of a love stronger than death. "Had I known how great their love was," says King Sigvor, covering his face with his hands ' in a rare display of emotion, "I would not have let them die for all the kingdoms of the earth...
...shop. Still, such trials can end with severe sentences. The deserted mother's vision of her husband's eventual return is affecting because it seems so hopeless. The teenager, unable to face the consequences of his experiment, goes mad and leaves his father to die of old age and grief...