Word: myriad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Attic, James Michener's Hawaii, and John O'Hara's A Rage to Live. And they have multiple picture deals with dozens of high-density stars such as Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Dean Martin, Jason Robards Jr. and Yul Brynner. "I call them the myriad Mirisches," says Lemmon. "I don't know where they come from, but they are all around. And somehow, we all want to work for them...
...enclosed platform at the gantry's 65-ft. level, technicians helped him squeeze through a hatch in the squat, black space capsule perched atop a Redstone rocket. Then he submitted to the time-consuming business of being strapped onto a contour couch, of being hooked up to myriad tubes and wires. At 6:10 a.m. E.S.T., the hatch was closed and sealed. Blast-off was still more than three hours away...
Died. Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair, 78, a Mississippi beauty who married muckraking Socialist Crusader Upton Sinclair in 1913, devoted the rest of her life to his myriad causes (vegetarianism, Prohibition and three campaigns for the governorship of California), his writing (75 books) and, finally, to keeping him "at home and out of mischief"; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif. Herself the author of sonnets and a sprightly autobiography, Southern Belle, she described "Uppie" as "a dual personality-a helpless child in his personal affairs and a brave and skillful fighter in the cause he loved...
...taking extra courses. After two years in a House the student is in a fine position to make this decision Some factors which might influence the student are: financial problems, marriage, the prospect of a long graduate or professional training, plans to spend a year abroad, and a myriad of personal reasons...
Shrill threats to "liberate West Irian" have long been President Sukarno's favorite device to rouse Indonesian patriotic passions and divert attention from the myriad shortcomings of his floundering economy at home. Indonesia's claim to Netherlands New Guinea is based on the fact that the Dutch administered it as part of The Netherlands East Indies along with the other islands that now make up independent Indonesia...