Word: frontier
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Jackson's speech also included a political viewpoint that he has expressed frequently in recent public forums: that America's inner cities are the last great economic frontier. Despite differences highlighted in metropolitan areas, Jackson insisted that the American dream is a vision all Americans share...
...unpopular here," he says. "I was loquacious, overly intelligent, well educated. I knew too much about too many things, and that angered other people." Seed graduated cum laude from Harvard and received a Ph.D. in physics in 1953. Soon, though, his interests shifted, and he began exploring the new frontier of biomedicine. In the 1970s Seed co-founded a company that commercialized a technique for transferring embryos in cattle. Later, he and his brother, Chicago surgeon Randolph Seed, started another company to help infertile women conceive children using the same technique...
...While he was majority leader in 1978, Senator Robert Byrd (who started his political career by playing fiddle on West Virginia street corners) recorded Mountain Fiddler, an album of "classic fiddle tunes of the old frontier, frolic tunes and gospel...
...lean, strikingly handsome--hoped the tumult would pass. During the day he buried himself in schoolwork. Nights he passed at home. But over his books, across his strong Hungarian coffee, he heard rumors: the Russians were rounding up students. Children were disappearing. Trains were leaving for the frontier...
...riotous singer; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Once billed as the "extra padded attraction," Kaye put every pound to showstopping effect as he rocked the boat--and Broadway--in the original Guys and Dolls. He played Nicely-Nicely Johnson onscreen too, as well as a banjo-playing minstrel in the frontier spoof Cat Ballou...