Word: downward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aluminum 550-h.p. engine for the Corvette Sting Ray; with that power pack, the car costs about $9,000. Ford hopes to lure speedsters with a souped-up Mustang, called the "Boss 302." The auto is built with a wing across the rear deck to provide a downward thrust that adds traction to the wheels; it also has fixed louvres as bizarre sunshades on the rear window. The still more powerful "Boss 429" has a 375-h.p. engine that will whip the car from zero to 60 m.p.h. in less than six seconds. Even the Ford Fairlane, usually a sedate...
...their eyes, just as blacks are accustomed to do in West Africa. Nonetheless, whites still interpret such eye aversion as an insult or a token of inattention. Pondering the implications of eye aversion, Linguistic Anthropologist Edward T. Hall says: "How often has a polite black schoolchild cast his eyes downward as a sign of respect, and failed to meet a teacher's eye when questioned? How many teachers have thought students were 'tuned out' because they gave no visible sign they were listening? How many have said, in angry tones, 'Johnny! When I talk, you listen...
...appeared in short stories (The Magic Barrel) and novels (A New Life, The Fixer). The Malamud man wobbles between laughter and tears. One minute he can be all suffering profile, squirming against his private cross. The next minute one eye winks, his shoulders shrug, his mouth gives a little downward grimace, and out comes the self-mocking voice of a Jewish comedian: "Oy, this hurts...
Conflict is seeping downward in the educational system. In Norfolk, Va., 300 students of the predominantly Negro Booker T. Washington High School walked out in protest over the dismissal of a football coach and next fall's football schedule, which does not include any conference games against white schools. New Rochelle High School, near New York City, was forced to close after a disruption over the stationing of a policeman at the school because of previous trouble. Vandalism, violence and vituperative dissent on a broad variety of issues shut down four New York City high schools last week...
...cool off. There has been no fuel added to the fire for several months." Several special circumstances, moreover, contributed to the March price increases. One was the fact that high interest rates were suddenly included in the figure for home ownership costs. Prices for used cars, which swung downward temporarily last year, rebounded sharply to their former levels. Food rose by 0.4% and clothing by 0.6%. Higher prices did not deter shoppers from buying spring fashions; March sales in the apparel industry rose 14% above their level of a year earlier...