Word: greater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...free from the problems that afflict urban areas everywhere. Some of Reston's teen-agers have taken to drugs and gone on sprees of vandalism. Residents of new towns outside of Stockholm refer to them as "sleeping cemeteries." Though Britons find that the new towns give them a greater sense of community, some inhabitants complain that living in them is often dull. Nonetheless, a well-planned new town seems infinitely preferable to the typical American "slurb," with its dreary tracts, its jumbled community facilities and its tangle of roadways...
...that continuation of the pregnancy would involve greater risk to the life of the woman than if pregnancy ended...
...that its continuation would involve greater risk of injury to the physical or mental health of the woman or of any existing children of her family...
Instead, she has made out of her culture conflict an exquisite nonfiction novel of sensibility. As a documentary study of human beings in adversity, it deserves a place next to Oscar Lewis' The Children of Sanchez. As an artistic creation, Torregreca'?, eloquence often matches an even greater book, James Agee's enduring Let Us Now Praise Famous...
...selected the Committee on Houses because students have a greater expertise in that area," Raines said. "Also the mundane issues of dress codes and parietals belong more properly under student control...