Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keeps his ear to the ground so close that he gets it full of grasshoppers much of the time...
Cannon on William McKinley Lyndon Johnson keeps his ear as close to the ground as any President in history, but what mostly seems to get in his ears these days are bothersome creatures called psephologists. When his 70%-approval ratings were a dime a dozen, the President's inside coat pocket always bulged with polls, ready to be yanked out and proudly displayed at a moment's notice. Since his popularity went into a decline, he has tended to keep those polls out of view, if not quite out of mind. Last week he had a rare choice...
...awful forces of fertility or famine, prosperity or plague. These magic men were precious possessions, to be carefully guarded against contamination or capture. Sometimes they were incarcerated in darkness to keep them from the influence of the sun and moon, sometimes they were prevented from even touching the ground for fear that the earth might leach out their power. If the magic did fail-when the crops were poor or the hunting bad or the enemy prevailed-then it was time to get rid of the old king...
...more than 50 million documents along with hundreds of thousands of volumes in the archives, among them the only complete collection of 19th-century Italian newspapers, were damaged or destroyed. At the Gabinetto Vieussiecux (the library of Italian culture and history), archives, furniture and books, as well as the ground floor of the Palazzo Strozzi, received extensive damage...
...restoration laboratories and storage areas and much of the work on the ground floor of the Uffizi Galleries was also destroyed. Among the works lost are some by Giotto, Botticelli, Filippo Lippi, Masaccio and Simone Martin. The photo library and archives were completely destroyed as well, although 130,000 negatives--covered with oil and thought irretrievably lost -- are now in the process of restoration with the help of Harvard restorers...