Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...western South America. Avalanches rumble down constantly from the 20,000-ft. peaks. And beneath the earth's jagged crust, fantastic forces grind and churn, producing violent earthquakes-most often in Chile. Of the thousands of big and little tremors recorded around the world each year, about 15% occur in Chile. One quake in 1906 took 3,000 lives. Another in 1939 left 30,000 dead. Five years ago, still another killed 5,000 people. Last week Chile had the shakes again...
Harvard enters the 1965 season with almost as uncertain as last --but Shepard is enough of a realist know that once-in-a-lifetime miracles occur twice in two years...
...word is cat in English. In Danish and Dutch it is kat, in Swedish katt, in German katze, in French chat, in Spanish and Portuguese gato, in Italian gatto, in Russian kot, and in Gaelic cat. Such striking linguistic similarities, which occur profusely throughout the Babel of the world, defy coincidence. They suggest that someone who knows one language need never walk blindfold through the labyrinth of a related tongue...
...most suburban growth in the next few years will not occur in such planned communities, Weaver emphasized. "Projected new communities represent feasible examples of an extremely attractive life style for the middle- and upper-income family," he said. But he noted that lower-income families, more than a third of the total population, are usually excluded from the plans...
...giving their characters meaningful work to do at their jobs. They have no idea of the subtle moral dilemmas the business organization can thrust at a man. Therefore the novelists fall back on bribery and sexual pandering, though these blatant corruptions are 1) unconvincing on realistic grounds because they occur only in a few grubby corners of the business world, and 2) uninteresting on fictional grounds because nobody concerned has any doubt of their immorality...