Word: dwelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...door. Manila's eleven daily newspapers (six in English) crackle with scare headlines reporting the latest murders, rapes and pirate raids (which still occur at a rate of one a week, conducted by Moros in motorized sailboats armed with modern weapons). In the back pages of the papers dwell Buck Rogers, Peanuts and the pistol ads. More than 25,000 weapons were left in the islands after World War II; they were not "enough for the 31 million Filipinos, most of whom prefer to go armed. Last year one act of violence was attempted every hour-ranging from murder...
...angry red of rare roast beef. "There come moments in the life of every party when it needs to wash off the last application of humbug and start fresh," said the Times. "Such a moment has come for the Conservative Party." For three straight days, the Times continued to dwell on Tory sins and shortcomings. It was a cruel birching from any quarter. What hurt most was that this one came from an old friend...
Slow Delivery. This bitter satire of Eastern Europe's consumer market is not just a product of imagination. Junketing through Hungary last week, Nikita Khrushchev seemed to dwell more on the muddles than on the marvels of the Communist economic system...
...Hunter and Hamilton Holmes into the University of Georgia in January, 1961. Students stone Charlayne's dormitory her first night on campus, they deface her car, and insults and abuse greet both Negroes throughout the university. But Trillin, a Yale graduate who writes for the New Yorker, does not dwell on these incidents. Instead he chooses to report the disillusionment and sense of loss that two Negroes experience when they leave the comfort of high-school success in an all-Negro environment to enter Georgia as symbols of The Cause...
...savage for her life studies. A scheming maharajah helps her trap a fake abominable snowman, whom she brings caged to Chicago. She dresses him up like Rock Hudson, seduces him and shows him off to a menagerie of North Shore friends at a cocktail party. The savage flees to dwell in the jungle in earnest; the girl follows on the wings of love. Departing civilization in soulful triumph, she surrenders herself to life and love in a cave-even as native bearers carry into the jungle her bathtub, her refrigerator, her television...