Word: openable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happy "just being here and seeing the possibilities." Here is Sil Read, 23, another est grad, who thinks attending The Event is "like going into a beautiful church." There in a $60 seat, a matronly woman sits confiding to a newfound friend in the next seat that she is open. Says she: "I used to be closed, and I lost my job, my money and my husband, and things did not start to get better until I became - open...
...members of the Peoples Temple put on a marvelous performance for their visitors. Reporters were led past the central, open-air pavilion, used as both a school and an assembly hall. The visitors saw the newly completed sawmill, the 10,000-volume library, the neat nursery, where mosquito netting protected babies sleeping peacefully on pallets. The colony hospital had delivered 33 babies without a single death, the tour guides said...
Skip Roberts, the Guyanese assistant commissioner of crime, told Neff that the first troopers arriving in Jonestown had found Jones' house ransacked and a large safe standing both open and empty. Two of the victims in the house had been shot: one of Jones' bodyguards and Jones' mistress, Annie Moore. Most of the eight men suspected of having taken part in the airport ambush also lay dead of poisoning in the house...
...passed a local-option bill last spring, and 15 of the 45 counties where the question was put on the ballot subsequently approved sales of drinks. But the Kansas Supreme Court threw out the law, ruling that the legislature had no business enacting it while an explicit prohibition against "open saloons" remained in the state constitution. Although it may take time for the legislators to clear up the confusion, Kansans will not go thirsty. As in many other states with restrictive liquor laws, almost anyone can get served at so-called private clubs. They are scarcely difficult to join: memberships...
...reported to be ready to agree to a further compromise. Like the Egyptian President, Administration officials refused to believe that there was no further room for maneuver on the question of linkage. "We think the issue is not determined yet," said Secretary Vance last week. "It is still an open issue...