Word: legendes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year as president-elect, he noted, before he actually assumed the presidency in 1972. By that time, the dispute over the radiation standards might be settled. Seaborg's sang-froid was characteristic. A tall (6 ft. 3 in.) and shambling figure, he has become something of a legend in Washington for his ability to duck controversy. During the intense debate over whether the U.S. should build an H-bomb, he managed to retain the friendship of both Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller. On the one hand, he agreed with Teller that the bomb should be built; on the other...
Jack Johnson became legend in the eyes of the early twentieth century's young Negro because he rebelled against the suggested "race behavior patterns" set by Booker T. Washington in Atlanta in 1895, patterns which remained unchanged until mid-century. Said' Washington to the white...
...hung in the back windows of their pick-up trucks even when it's not hunting season, it's not so much a demonstration of militance as of the kind of spirit that prompted one Alaskan candidate in this fall's elections to pass out bumper stickers with the legend "THE WEST WASN'T WON WITH A REGISTERED...
...colored curtains," he explained, "with big pieces cut out of them." There was one thing about the Northern Lights, though, that impressed even him. "One night I was standing with my mother in front of our house. She's from Point Barrow-and she said she remembered a legend she'd heard about the Northern Lights. It said that if you chanted these certain words, the lights would get brighter. So she said these words, it sounded like mumbles to me, 'mboo hom mom,' or something, I don't understand Eskimo language-and then the lights got brighter." He shrugged...
...lake glittered under a westering sun and in the meadow close at hand peasants were reaping golden rye. In Finland the age of myth and legend is still just around the corner and doors stand open to the great winds which blow from the past out of the Kalevala, the Sagas and the Edda. Let me give you an idea of how close it is. That evening these same peasants were cooking their supper over a fire of twigs on a raised, open hearth. The hearth was like the one you see on the stage in Act I of Wagner...