Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moment, the playoff will be a best of three series between the Terriers and the Redmen. Should Dartmouth beat Cornell this Saturday for the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League title, the Indians will be added to the double-elimination contest...
...slave, death was a moment of peace, dignity, and freedom which could not be known in life. Sorrow in death was always tempered by a sense of relief. This great boisterous celebration of death could only have sprung from such conditions as black men faced in America. Why it took the particular form it did in 19th-century New Orleans--the jazz funeral--is impossible to answer precisely. Black men found horns and drums and created a great music--a music that would express a powerful, heartfelt message. It was the blues, ragtime, spirituals, marching music dancing music. They lived...
...forest fires had been contained on the outskirts of Fairbanks--an overgrown frontier town that is the closest thing to civilization in Alaska's 400,000 square-mile interior. Throughout August, the distant fires still created a persistent haze and a strong smell of pine incense. At any moment, lightning could ignite the dry moss in a forest much closer to home and destroy some section of the town, but the pool of trained firefighters was nearly exhausted. Besides local volunteers, firefighters from Montana, Idaho, and other Western states and laborers from the local prison were pressed into service...
THIS IS NOT to say that firefighters should be driven out of business, but only that a less anthropocentric view of natural fires should be taken. At the moment, urban man imposes his personal search for order an nature and tries to bridle all natural processes. Man finds something unclean, uneconomical, and therefore unnatural about natural fires...
...moment, whenever a fire is spotted, it is immediately extinguished. This policy allows large quantities of leaf litter to accumulate on the forest floor, and when the inevitable fire does strike, this excess fuel not only raises the temperature beyond the soil's danger point but also produces a much harder blaze to control. A series of smaller fires in timber and range lands might be better for the long-term benefit of the soil...