Word: livings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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License-plate slogans tend to be innocuous boasts of a state's famous product: corn, copper, sunshine, lakes, Lincoln, enchantment. From 1969 on, New Hampshire car owners had a more forceful phrase, LIVE FREE OR DIE, and it drove some of them to distraction. Motorist George Maynard, feeling the slogan confined him to the right lane, went all the way to the Supreme Court in 1977 with his refusal to pay a $75 fine for blotting out the offending words on his plates. The court ruled in his favor...
Then Governor Meldrim Thomson responded to the Supreme Court ruling by ordering the LIVE FREE OR DIE battle cry imprinted on all official stationery and on all highways leading into the state. But Thomson was beaten in the November election, and the state's newly installed Governor, Hugh Gallen, has decided to give the patriotic slogan a rest, initially by removing it from his own letterheads. And what is the proposed new slogan for license plates? SCENIC NEW HAMPSHIRE. On second thought...
Today, the University has sold nearly all of the houses to the faculty members who live in them--it now owns only about eight private houses, Sally Zeckhauser, president of Harvard Real Estate Inc., said...
...paper: "Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain." And few have expressed more simply the pleasures of that word tamer. "Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for. This is the great advantage they possess, which more than makes up for the little they usually earn." The words may jump and snarl, snap and bite when Brenan sits down at his own desk. But when they march onto his page, they almost always perform marvelous and original tricks...
Keith County Journal, a collection of essays about desolate Nebraska grasslands, has already invited comparison with such lapidary works as Lewis Thomas' Lives of a Cell and Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. The book belongs in that company. Like Blake seeing a world in a grain of sand, Professor Janovy discerns universes in the creeks, bogs and fields of the Sandhills country. He makes the reader care for creatures as large as the great blue heron, as small as the inch-long plains killifish, and as obscure as the parasites of the genus Trich-odina that...