Word: kite
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...activities would vary. The women frequently were sent out to steal. If we were near a university, they would go into women's dorms and steal purses. If they managed to get an ID and a checkbook, they'd go out as fast as possible to kite the checks." Another technique was to comb birth records in city halls to find a child who had been born at about the same time as a cell member but who had died in infancy. The name and birth date would then be used in applying for a driver...
Russian highlights include Archipenko's monumental nudes and a gleeful Mare Chagall work, "Self portrait with woman." In 1921, Chagall had not yet emigrated from Russia. A leading art educator in Vitebsk, he portrays himself happy, in familiar surroundings, a woman floating breezily from his hand like a kite...
...secret valley of the Tasaday. High on a cliff, in a cave about 50 ft. wide and 30 ft. deep, small groups sat talking by several fires. Children climbed a smooth rock and laughed as they slid down. One boy flew a pet butterfly on a string, like a kite. The floor of the cavern was regularly swept with branches, but no improvements had been made...
...supposed to feature Franklin's "contributions to Harvard." It does seem interesting that the man who wrote that blasphemous little ditty "Early to bed, Early to rise, etc." should be honored at the one major university which offers no 8 a.m. classes. The key from the famous kite experiment isn't there, either. The Fogg has new hours these days--it opens at 9 now instead of 10 (more the influence of the unions than Franklin, though...
...deficit for fiscal 1976 does soar above $70 billion or so-a concern given far more substance by President Ford's signing of the tax cut and Treasury Secretary William Simon's lugubrious talk. Many investors fear an overstimulation of the economy that would re-ignite inflation, kite up interest rates and set off a damaging competition for funds between the Government and private borrowers. In that case, they believe, there might not be enough money to meet both federal and corporate demands and to fuel economic recovery. Beset by such doubts, many investors decided...