Word: godsends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Highways a Godsend...
...boss is "very un-Japanese." But popular magazines revere him as a reincarnation of Taiko, a peasant-bred warrior who rose to the top samurai rank in the 16th century. To Western journalists in Tokyo, who are used to dealing with faceless and unfathomable bureaucrats, Tanaka is a godsend, the earthy Khrushchev of Japanese politics...
...coalition of students, artists, architects, merchants, citizens and cultural groups grew in format, the student steering committee found over the past month that it threatened to spread its energy and attentions too thin. That's when current Harvard Square Arts Festival coordinator Kristen Wainwright appeared on the scene--"a godsend," Bruce calls her--to help organize the community side of the Festival. With the experience of coordinating the 1971 Great Boston Kite Festival and serving as assistant director of the Children's Museum Visitor Center last year, Kristen is cut out for her present crusade...
...granted in 1932. If they find what they are looking for, the discovery could help redeem the country. In the meantime they could do worse than heed the word from Cold Comfort Farm: Keep your compost wet. After a hard winter, even a turnip can look like a godsend...
...screaming, 'Stop the war.' Are they right? Maybe so." Today Calley even wonders whether the Vietnamese farmer who wants only to till his land would really suffer under Communism. "It probably wouldn't hurt him a damned bit-compared to a war, Communism could be a godsend...