Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government grants, the city has grabbed off $42 million in federal funds for its poverty programs, budgeted $30 million for them this year alone. Because many of the city's 520,000 Negroes (out of a population of 1,600,000) are unequipped to qualify for other than manual labor, some $10 million will go toward special training and placement programs for the unskilled and the illiterate. A $4,000,000 medical program furnishes family-planning advice, outpatient clinics and the like. To cool any potential riot fever, the city had allotted an additional $3,000,000 for this...
...receive the last sacrament of the Roman Church. He had been dead for two hours, but the priest took her word that he was alive. Then, "sorrowfully, reverently, and in fear and trembling," she set about burning his manuscript of The Scented Garden, an encyclopaedic sex manual whose translation from the Arabic had occupied Burton's last years (a partial version survived). Also into the flames went his private journal of 40 years, which he had kept under lock and key. This act left her free to clean up Ruffian Dick for the visitors and write a biography...
...course, has the resources in firepower and men to defeat any Communist force anywhere in Viet Nam that is willing to stand and fight for any length of time. But, true to Mao's manual of guerrilla warfare, the enemy is fighting for the most part only when he chooses and with a willingness to take heavy losses to undermine U.S. patience in the war. (One North Vietnamese defector along the DMZ claimed that his job was to dig graves for a third of his unit before it went into battle against the Marines...
Reshaping the Landscape. More by accident than design, some university books turn into bestsellers. The Lonely Crowd, by Harvard Sociologist David Riesman, has sold more than a million copies since it was published by Yale in 1950; Chicago's Manual for the Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations has sold nearly 900,000 copies. Oklahoma's Plowman's Folly, written in 1943 by a county agricultural agent, Edward H. Faulkner, not only sold 355,000 copies, but, by advocating shallow disk harrowing for small-grain crops instead of deep plowing, literally reshaped the landscape of rural...
...couple of earlier English plays, popular folklore, and even Scot's nonfiction treatise The Discoverie of Witchcraft. But Shakespeare worked everything up into a fresh plot of his own -- or, rather, a skillfully unified interlocking set of three plots -- involving four classes of people from supernatural beings down to manual laborers. And on this work he lavished lots of his loveliest language...