Word: hay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...calculate that the median income of the U.S. family, measured in dollars of constant buying power, will rise from $8,600 in 1969 to $10,900 by the beginning of 1975. Then the figure will continue upward, to $14,700 by 1985. Says the bureau's director, George Hay Brown: "We are heading into a society with an affluent majority...
...American fantasy-that the U.S. could be China's protector-began about the turn of the century. On the one hand there was John Hay's "Open Door" policy, which in fact meant that the U.S. demanded equal trading rights with the European powers. On the other, there was the zeal, mostly idealistic, of religious missionaries, whose work had the support of millions back home. By the end of World War I, the sense of mission and patronage was so strong that public and press angrily denounced Woodrow Wilson when he acquiesced to Japan's taking over...
Cooch Owen walked over to the bus with Harry Reynolds. "Hay, Harry, Do you wear jockeys or swing easies?" Harry mumbled, and Coach laughed. Dan DiMichele got on the bus, sat down, and wrote "Brown sucks" on the frosted over window. I got on the bus as inconspicuously as I could. The hockey team isn't too fond...
Died. Samuel Hay Kauffmann, 72, president of Washington's Evening Star Newspaper Co. from 1949 to 1963; of pneumonia; in Washington, D.C. Kauffmann's business acumen helped make the Star a continuing financial success, though it has never challenged the editorial eminence of the Washington Post...
Furthermore, while American children sleep away on their six-inch mattresses and visions of G.I. Joe Sub-machine Guns dance through their head, kids in Slavic countries some-times sleep on beds of straw and hay on Christmas Eve so that they may share in Christ's humble birth...