Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...caused by floods, though pestilence, famine, war and earthquake rank almost as high. Last year Tripp and his three-man staff (working from a minuscule suite near the White House) funneled $41.5 million worth of supplies and services to 39 countries-at a rate of nearly one disaster per week. Duplication is frequent, since some poor countries seem to be "disaster prone": last year, for example, India suffered both drought and smallpox, Nicaragua fire and famine...
...then why did only 43 per cent of the class answer the poll, if all of the Houses were covered for three days? To begin with, not all the seniors eat in the Houses. Furthermore, some of them had already left for Christmas vacation. But most importantly, only one of the entrances into the dining hall was covered in each House...
...second main objection to the poll is more obvious. Percentages given were not of the total number of people who answered the poll, but of a slightly smaller number who answered the question being referred to. This should explain what appeared to be numerical miscalculations of about one per cent...
Incidentally, 78 per cent of the entries recognized Fabian as history's worst singer. The percentage might have been higher if the judges could have deciphered the entry submitted in Japanese characters...
Maharishi's metaphysical nonsequiturs appealed to the audience. "You don't have to give up the material world," he said, although he is both celibate and a vegetarian. "We can live 200 per cent of life by experiencing both the material and the spiritual...