Word: nineteen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sophomore at a small alternative college in Oregon, Larry was tall, bearded, and thin. Like a more famous Oregonian, Bill Walton, he often wore a wool cap, flannel shirt, and blue jeans--lumberjack garb. Nineteen-year old Larry had just had his draft physical the week before...
...most effective method of destroying an entire color of man is through government subsidized and coerced control and sterilization of women. The genocide document illustrates the abuse of birth control. Twenty-four per cent of Native women have been sterilized. Nineteen per cent are of child-bearing age. For every seven babies born, one Indian woman is sterilized." In 1973 Sen James Abourezk (D-S.D.) requested a General Accounting Office report on sterilization at Indian Health Service facilities. The GAO report (B-164031-5) monitored four IHS areas. The GAO report findings state, "Between 1973 and 1976, in four...
...since John Kennedy's funeral in 1963 had so many heads of state descended on Washington at once. Nineteen national leaders, along with top officials of eight other Western Hemisphere nations-from Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to Argentina's President Jorge Rafael Videla-were in town with full, glittering retinues. The occasion: the signing of a Panama Canal treaty that was initialed last month after 13 years of on-and-off efforts through the Administrations of four U.S. Presidents...
...pathological degree. He looks at himself and his contemporaries and sees failure. "We had all our values wrong," he tells his current actress girl friend. "We expected too much. Trusted too much. There's a great chasm in twentieth-century history. A frontier. Whether you were born before nineteen thirty-nine or not. The world, time...it slipped. Jumped forward three decades in one. We antediluvians have been left permanently out of gear...
...Half-hourly limousines downtown ($3.50). Two commuter airlines. Parking: ample. Far-out lots served by shuttle bus. Flow Through: well planned. Sidewalk check-ins, baggage carts for rent (75?). One big central terminal with fingers leading to boarding areas. Longest walk: 2,680 ft. Baggage checkout: good. Hotels/Motels: plentiful. Nineteen near airport. Amenities: unambitious. Adequate lounges, but main terminal has only two benches. Coffee shop, cafeteria, snack bars open 24 hr. One restaurant, Dobbs House. Six bars open 24 hr., except Sunday a.m. Shopping facilities: minimal. Well-stocked toy shop. Country store with Southern specialties. One barbershop. Emergencies handled...