Word: path
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this has changed recently. Now the piercee is simply following a well-worn path, not blazing a trail. Just as she plinked on a guitar last year, the informed 'Cliffie this year pierced her ears. How can mothers protest when "all the other girls on my corridor have pierced ears?" Furthermore, some mothers are not beating, but joining, the trend. It is not surprising to hear of a mother and daughter having their ears pierced at the same time, perhaps to present a solid front against the male wrath...
...Gross of the New York Post. "Hysteria," said New York Timesman Arthur Daley. The boxing commission doctor reported Clay's pulse rate at 120-v. his normal 54. "This is a man who is scared to death," diagnosed the doctor. "He acts like a man off the beaten path." The performance cost Cassius a $2,500 fine, and out in Las Vegas, bookmakers raised the odds against Clay from 7-1 to 8-1. Smiled Cassius: "That's fine. I like being the underdog...
...looked as if Mba had followed in the ignominious path of Dahomey's Hubert Maga and the Congo Republic's Fulbert Youlou, both of whose governments were toppled last year. De Gaulle did not choose to intervene in those insurrections. This time, however, more was at stake. Claiming that the Gabon coup did not have popular support, De Gaulle implemented a "mutual defense" agreement signed in 1960 when Gabon became independent. Eleven hours after Mba's rude awakening, French help...
...District Commission have joined forces to honor the appointment of Stan Musial as the President's Physical Fitness Adviser by providing flabby undergraduates with a painless way to exercise. In a secret agreement, signed no doubt in the new tennis courts, Harvard and the MDC agreed to retain the path to the Business School parking lot as a mecca of winter sports...
When he finally does go to bed and tries to sleep, the city dweller has to contend with the incessant noises. Sub urbanites are not much better off, and the remotest home on the range may lie under the path of roaring jet airliners -the same swift giants that carry a man halfway around the world in half a day, and throw his built-in waking-and-sleeping clock out of kilter...