Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...necessary, for Simon had his first houses range from $27,000 to $50,000 in order to get his idea commercially off and running. His market advisors assured him that urban lower-income people would not be the first to move to the country where bulldozers were still breaking ground. As the composition of the residents moves to a broader cross section of income levels and interests, image of life at Reston will change as well. Reston's publicity, too, which thus far has been directed at middle and upper-middle income groups, will change as the availability of lower...
...accredited Negro school, has a 25 per cent annual drop-out rate because of inadequate high school training. To combat this, Monro has designed a special course of studies for freshmen, with emphasis on small classes and intensive counseling. But the program is just getting off the ground...
...many Civil War projectiles over the years (nine tons of them) that he stashes many in his basement for fear the upper floors will collapse if he displays them. He sighs that "the centennial ruined us" and says flatly that "the best finds are made by novices on ground that has already been beat flat." Possibly. But farmers who own land that includes Civil War ground not yet beat flat are fully aware of the buried booty they may own, and they often post signs: NO DETECTORS-VIOLATORS PROSECUTED...
...Vietnamese civilians. U.S. bombing policy, noted the Economist, is based on "two apparently contrary, yet complementary principles. In certain special zones or in areas where full-scale operations are being waged against the enemy, the bombing is devastating and relentless. But in areas which contain civilians, the most elaborate ground rules are in force to try to stop them from being hurt...
...sinners than its saints. Born in 1483, the son of a Saxon miner, Luther had every intention of becoming a lawyer until, one day in 1505, he was caught in a sudden storm while walking toward the village of Stotternheim. A bolt of lightning knocked him to the ground, and Luther, terrified, called out to the church's patroness of miners: "St. Anne, help me! I will become a monk...