Word: hacking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people in the Susitna valley, the last whines of winter had special meaning: it was just a year since 37 pioneers from Michigan-the well-publicized "Fifty-Niners"-arrived in the pioneer country to hack out a new life for themselves (TIME, May 11). Some of their number have gone home discouraged; others have moved to the cities; a few staked out homesteads in other valleys. Along the Susitna remained only 13 undismayed pioneers and their children...
...quarter results, but we've got our finger on the problem and we're doing something about it. I don't see any justification for the sort of gossip that you pick up on Wall Street that indicates that Raytheon is going to hell in a hack...
...marauding Mau Mau gangs began darting out of the Aberdare hills to slaughter white farmers and hack their cattle to death, and the government declared a national emergency. It is generally agreed that Mboya played no part in the savage three-year revolt. But he had been an active member of Kenyatta's Kenya African Union...
...mean the pictures of college girls in tight sweaters and football helmets." A pent-up postwar demand for new schools and new teachers generated a new public interest in public education-and forced newspapers to re-examine a neglected corner of the local scene. Inevitably, the hack writers began to disappear, and today's education reporter bears little resemblance to his predecessor. He knows his subject and often brings to it, as in the case of Ben Fine (who holds seven honorary and one earned doctorate degrees), actual experience in teaching. At an educators' conference several years...