Word: hards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...research. They have developed new irrigation techniques, tapped solar energy, bred deep-sea fish in captivity and even solved the riddle of how the camel stores water (in the bloodstream). As the late Chaim Weizmann, Israel's first President, once explained: "Of course, miracles happen, but it needs hard work to make them...
...explains. "We have to locate the spirit." The whole group slides closer to Leslie, and all place hands on her body. "Where do you feel it?" he asks. "In my stomach and thighs," says Leslie. "Oh, boy!" says Dennis. "I want you to just breathe in and out, really hard." Everybody presses down on Leslie. "You're hurting my stomach," she groans. Finally the spirit is out; the group brushes it away with ostrich plumes. "All you have to do now is live, Leslie," says Dennis. She limps downstairs, and he smiles: "It works every time...
...Have Bananas. Shultz is the first economist to become Secretary of Labor, a post usually assigned to lawyers. He labors hard himself, arriving at his desk at 7:30 a.m. and often returning to work in the evening, with occasional time out for tennis or golf. Once he beat A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany by ten strokes (80 to 90). Son of a New York Stock Exchange official, Shultz graduated from Princeton in 1942 with an honors degree in economics. During World War II, he was a major in the Marines. He earned a Ph.D. in industrial economics at M.I.T...
...Chips a musical. As a result, Leslie Bricusse was given license to inflict ten songs. Like the pupils' Latin lessons, the lyrics will not pass scrutiny ("He smiled. I smiled. We smiled. And the sky smiled too."); the melodies are scarcely more tuneful than a piece of hard chalk drawn across a blackboard. Even with O'Toole's oddly moving Sprechgesang and Clark's perfect phrasing, the numbers never add up to a score...
...often hard to love the animals. They've got too many problems: they're dirty and smelly. They never get outside of their cages. It's easy to feel sorry for them, but feeling sorry for something often makes it impossible to love it as well...