Word: migrant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...golf course while the narrator was either on a hill behind a drive-in movie with a girl or on a barren shore, d) that the friend had started writing bad poems while in the hospital anyway, and e) that the narrator has had some connection with California migrant workers. But the chronology and emotional connections are hopelessly muddled...
...addition, the U.S. Children's Bureau estimates, there are another 500,000 children twelve years old or under who are entrusted to brothers or sisters, thus often keeping them from school. Then there are the 450,000 children of migrant workers who are either taken to the fields with their parents or left behind in untended shacks...
...youth, he made his first field trip at 13 when he hiked around Western Tibet with an older sister. Soon after graduating from Yale ('36) he decided "to abandon all thoughts of a prosperous and worthy future and devote myself to birds." Ripley's career as a migrant ornithologist took him to Southeast Asia, Nepal and India. During World War II, as the OSS intelligence chief in Ceylon, he happily combined bird watching with training secret agents...
Heavily concentrated in the upper Midwest, the Brethren are mostly German in national origin, differ in theology and polity from the Methodists only in small detail. Mueller, the son of an irnr migrant pastor, graduated from North Central College in Illinois, entered the ministry in 1921 after teaching high school in Wisconsin and Minnesota. He was made a bishop in 1954, and from the council's founding has been one of the guiding forces. He was its first recording secretary, and since 1957 has been a vice president and chairman of its Division of Christian Education. As a member...
Sunset was never intended to play social conscience to the West. Until 1928, it was just another provincial literary magazine, plunging downhill in San Francisco. That year a migrant Kansan named Laurence W. Lane bought Sunset. An outdoorsy type himself, Lane took shrewd aim at the tide of sun worshipers flowing West and set out to make Sunset their guidebook...