Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Human Silhouettes. Starting with 31-in. aluminum discs flipped into the air, the shooter can be hitting regularly in ten minutes .(McDaniel once taught a ten-year-old girl to crumble Alka-Seltzer tablets). Next he moves to miniature silhouettes of humans on the ground 15 ft. away-maximum BB-gun range. The Daisy 199 air rifles used in the program are modified with heavy, military stocks to give a true feeling of weight. After a few hours of training, the recruit moves to M-14 and M-16 automatic rifles whose sights are blocked with strips of tape...
...flown his Piper Aztec across both the Atlantic and the Pacific: "By the time I land, I know more about the terrain, the agriculture, the roads, the housing than most of the people who live there. I've got an education before I even touch the ground...
...campaign to make tree houses safer. Recently, after a Riverhead resident complained about an unsightly tree house, Munson began to require parents to obtain tree-house building permits, and issued a detailed set of specifications governing their construction: the houses must be no more than 12 ft. off the ground; walls must be at least 42 in. high and floor boards at least 1 in. thick; the houses must be framed by two-by-fours and attached, with 16-penny nails, to branches no less than 5 in. in diameter for hardwood trees or 7 in. for softwood...
When a dog's social relationships are uncertain, or its family environment is insecure, or its master fails to live up to the kind of leadership image the dog has in mind, there is fertile ground for the seeds of mental illness to take root...
Amid the cacophony of attacks and recriminations emanating from hundreds of critics who oppose the Vietnam war, John Kenneth Galbraith's recent address to the National Citizens Committee to End the War in Vietnam stands out for its remarkable cogency and impact. Even when covering familiar ground Galbraith managed to achieve a level of sophistication and insight that few of the other critics have reached...