Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...going for her. When a woman in a store, mistaking the colonel for a supervisor, asked, "Do you have a lemon squeezer?" Colonel Briggs quickly introduced herself, said: "I have two, and if you can't find one I'll be glad to send you one of mine." And, though the colonel has promised to stick to the issues, she is woman enough to admit that she cannot promise not to be "snide from time to time...
...interested in fertility rites; he found statistics showing that the national birth rate jumped markedly nine months after Pearl Harbor and after the outbreak of the Korean War. In any case, he added, sociologists had predicted all along that the New York blackout would "provide a rich mine for behavioral, sociological and psychological discovery...
...performers on the street, dropped in on rehearsals to turn pages for the players and to delight in Russia's Oistrakh and America's Katchen arguing about a Schubert trio in German: "What difference does it make, Julius, whether we play it at your tempo or mine? We are going to have to play it the way the master tells us." As it worked out, the moderate tempo they agreed upon was much too slow for the cellist's tastes, and they had to press to keep up with his spirited attack...
...crazy West Germany, justice takes such autoeroticism into sympathetic account. Last week Wacker was preparing to appeal a prison sentence of two years and seven months for "manslaughter with mitigating circumstances." Most Germans would applaud the lightness of the sentence. "My car is a very special friend of mine," explains one car owner. "It's like a human being. I talk to my car. I greet it in the morning. 'And how are you?' I say. 'Glad to see you again.' Yes, I pet it too-just a light touch, or a stroke...
...Mine Ills. The basic idea, says Dr. Silver, is to train a well-qualified nurse to diagnose and treat run-of-the-mine complaints, give vaccines, check sight and hearing, and recognize troubles serious enough to demand a doctor's attention. "She doesn't have to know the specific difficulty," says Silver. "She simply has to know enough to say to herself, 'Oh-oh, I've listened to 3,000 hearts, and this one isn't right. This one is for the doctor...