Word: lurks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Touring Europe with youngsters can be very much like running a herd of piglets through a china shop: catastrophe may lurk on every side, and there always seems to be an enormous bill waiting at the end. But it need not be that way, according to Leila Hadley, whose Fielding's Guide to Traveling with Children in Europe* has just begun to appear in bookstores. "Traveling with children," says Author Hadley, "can be as easy and inexpensive-and far more rewarding-than traveling without them." And, she adds, "It is certainly infinitely preferable to not traveling...
...true value system of this University is that of Henry Kissinger, Samuel Huntington, John Dunlop, B.F. Skinner, and the other theorists of social manipulation who lurk around William James and Littauer. In the traditional sense, they are not values at all. For what binds these men together is an ethic of brute competence--a belief that they are members of an intellectual elite which is more clearly fitted to make the crucial decisions in American life than any other individual or group in the country. It is this, an absolute confidence in the intellectual and moral fitness...
...British sector. The shoulderless roadway is so narrow that no gas or electric lines can be installed: though it is the coldest part of the city, petroleum for both light and heat must be trucked in. Nonresidents must travel the dirt road under British escort, because Vopos lurk just off the roadway in case anybody accidentally "invades" East German territory. Ten years ago, the Vopos so harassed and frightened a young Eiskeller boy whenever he bicycled out to meet his school bus that he finally quit going to school. The British army solved the problem by escorting him back...
...idea fails, it will not be for want of trying by Old American's ad-writing chief, who at one point in his pitch says: "You never know what's waiting outside for you, do you? And when you get home, what fears lurk...
...unseen, uncounted but dangerous organisms that sometimes lurk in polluted water include the viruses that may cause conjunctivitis, laryngitis, sinusitis and hepatitis. They can also include the even more threatening bacteria that cause typhoid, cholera and leptospirosis, a sometimes serious infection carried by animal urine into streams, lakes and stagnant water. Indeed, small rural ponds can create a special hazard for swimmers. Without an adequate water flow to wash away debris, they may become breeding grounds for a heavy concentration of pathological organisms...