Word: fours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FOUR-GATED CITY, by Doris Lessing. In the final novel of her Children of Violence series, the author takes Heroine Martha Quest from World War II to the present. Then the meticulous, disturbing book proceeds into the future to demonstrate the author's extrasensory conviction that global disaster is at hand...
...have always had dozens of robins on this lawn and other dozens on the lawns between here and home. This year four showed up on this lawn, two on the lawns between here and home. A cat got one of the four and now a third has disappeared. The lovely mountain bluebird nested everywhere in this town and the surrounding hamlets and farms. I can't vouch for anywhere but my daily route-but here we have exactly one pair...
...welfare-reform program intended, by linking aid to work, to overhaul fundamentally poverty assistance. For a family of four, the basic federal subsidy would be $1,600, available to able-bodied recipients only if they accept employment or enrollment in job-training classes. The Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) would lose operating authority over the nation's antipoverty projects and would assume the more limited responsibility for research and development of new programs...
...basis-a support level of at least $3,000 for those who are unable to support themselves." Congress will have that opportunity. Three representatives-Jonathan Bingham, John Conyers and Charles Whalen-presented a new bill last week that would provide a base of $3,200 for a family of four...
...crime was "so weird and bizarre," declared Los Angeles Coroner Thomas Noguchi, that he had taken an unusual step. He was showing photographs of the bodies of Starlet Sharon Tate and the four other murder victims to a psychologist and a psychiatrist. Perhaps the killer had left some clue to his character in his sick and savage assault on the bodies of his victims...