Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hand, the number of blacks at elite white colleges some 30 to 40 years earlier was insignificant by comparison. Seldom were there, for example, more than 20 blacks Harvard in any given year during that era. A more fundamental difference, however, was that the small numbers precluded a pattern of all-black peer relationships and pressures. Each black student was forced, therefore, to navigate the unique achievement norms and success-patterns without the intervention of black solidarity agencies and attitudes...
There was another reason to suspect Sofia. If Markov had in fact been jabbed by a poison-tipped or poison-firing umbrella?or had been shot with a pellet gun by a man holding an umbrella?only a security service would probably have such sophisticated gadgetry at hand. Today's secret agents and hit men have access to numerous James Bondian devices that can make murder look like natural death ?poison delivered by aerosol spray, tiny darts fired from pens or cigarette boxes. In the late '50s a KGB agent killed two Ukrainian exile leaders in Germany by squirting...
...commodious quarters, such as the huge Propaganda Fide College, where missionary priests are trained. Some Cardinals found the palace constricting last time because of discomfort, isolation and the heat. Opponents of the shift pointed out that the stifling August weather is now gone and all the materials are at hand to prepare the familiar quarters. Besides, remarked St. Louis' John Carberry, "some of the Cardinals from Africa live in no better conditions back in their archdioceses." So the proposal was quashed. The balloting, which begins Sunday, Oct. 15, will be in the Sistine Chapel, as it has been since...
Saul Steinberg, artist and cartoonist: "The doodle is the brooding of the hand...
...Lynds picked up similar signs of cultural schizophrenia in 1920s Muncie: an antidivorce town with a rate of 42 divorces for every 100 marriages, a thrifty pay-as-you-go culture rushing to buy on credit, and a resentment of federal intervention that went hand in hand with a scramble for the federal dollar...