Word: myriad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the personal experiences of the people working on the cover project gave them a special frame of reference, the serious matter of producing the story, of course, called for an intensive study of the facts, issues and arguments surrounding the bountiful production and myriad troubles of U.S. agriculture. It is a story full of meaning for both city and country...
...outdoor concerts, they got their answer. The people started arriving at noon, toting picnic baskets and blankets. By late afternoon, long processionals-young couples arm in arm, scruffy Villagers, knots of teen-agers in Bermuda shorts, families pushing baby carriages, businessmen with thermoses of martinis -were snaking down the myriad pathways emptying into the rolling green. When the orchestra finally sounded the first notes of the fanfare, there were 70,000 people in the Sheep Meadow -the largest audience for a musical event in the city's history. No one could quite believe it. "I hoped...
...means "Moon Fairy." She and two friends had been making themselves lovable around the U.S. officers' mess at Soctrang Airbase, which they planned to blow up with plastic bombs fitted into talcum powder cans. The Viet Cong run a sweeping intelligence network by means of Saigon's myriad bar girls, also have agents working in most of the U.S. military installations around the country. One knowledgeable observer estimates that at least half of the female help employed at Danang also work for the Viet Cong. Though the V.C. often encourage wives to go along with their guerrilla husbands...
...Shakespeare's name were not attached to The Taming of the Shrew, the play would doubtless be gathering dust. Ranking near the bottom of the canon, this early potboiler is a paltry piece of work. Shakespeare very likely cooked up this bit of woman-baiting to appeal to the myriad Elizabethan fans of bear-baiting. Only the S.P.C.A. came out ahead...
...entire mountain region of Colorado has a myriad of old and new resorts which draw thousands of visitors all year round. Aspen, where Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy and her children skied last winter, in summer swarms with intellectuals and scholars attending the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies, and this year will draw music lovers for a festival and a conference on contemporary music, featuring lectures by distinguished composers. Vail is a bustling new ski resort built to look like an Alpine village. Texas Financier John Murchison has built a home there, IBM Chairman Thomas Watson owns an apartment, and the resort...