Word: flints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tartly satirical eye; in Maiden Newton, England. Warner met success early when her first novel (Lolly Willowes) became a premier selection by the fledgling U.S. Book-of-the-Month Club in 1926, but she showed an enduring talent with her genteel, Victorian prose (The Museum of Cheats, The Flint Anchor). A longtime contributor to The New Yorker, she also won acclaim as a poet (Time Importuned), a translator (Marcel Proust on Art and Literature 1896-1919) and a biographer (T.H. White...
...does not get it. The U.S. that rises from some of his drawings in the 1970s is an edgy, nasty place, a theater of disaster populated by grotesques. The white paper takes on the look of Manhattan's 42nd Street in summer, bombed out by midday glare. Whores, bums, flint-faced Irish cops, frazzled black pimps, rats, crocodiles up from some imagined sewer, sirens emitting Technicolor laser blasts of sound, bulbous cars belching their exhaust smoke, an S and M homunculus encased in glittering leather with the motto VIVAN LAS CADENAS (long live chains) worked in studs on its back?...
...maker of things"; Mother Eugenia, keeper of the kitchen garden and hearth and the two Hemlock children, Son Arn, 9, and Daughter Jen, 7. This is the family primeval, whose only contact with civilization is the annual visit of the Traveler, who trades lead shot, gunpowder, needles, salt and flint for the Hemlocks' superbly crafted knives and moccasins...
...fortunes of Silver Bay are tied to those of the Reserve Mining Co., which produces 15% of the nation's iron ore by extracting it from the area's flint-hard taconite rock. Reserve also employs 80% of the town's work force. In the late 1960s, U.S. Government scientists concluded that the taconite wastes, or tailings, left over from the extraction process did not sink harmlessly into the depths of Lake Superior as everyone supposed they did. Rather, the scientists said, the 67,000 tons of waste dumped each day contained asbestos-like fibers that contaminated...
...struck back at 3:29 of the second period when Charlie Flint tied the game assisted by Liston and Franco Scalamandre. Refreshed by the tie score, Harvard began to skate and check harder and tallied again just over a minute later, when win Roger Hunt deflected defenseman Chip Burke's centering pass to give the J.V. the lead...