Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generation Mississippian whose grandfather rode with General Forrest, I was born a segregationist and raised a segregationist. I have always defended this position. I defend it now." Nonetheless, he has also managed to steer the debate toward Mississippi's myriad shortcomings-which include the nation's lowest per capita income ($1,751 v. a national average...
After gazing into many a U.S. mouth, the American Dental Association estimates that the country is afflicted with one billion unfilled cavities, five per head. It adds that 26 million Americans have lost all their teeth, while 80% of those over the age of 15 have some form of periodontal disease attacking the tissues that support the teeth. Worse, dental problems are proliferating faster than dentists can treat them...
...altitude of 50,000 ft., a bar-ostatically-triggered drogue parachute is released. In turn, the craft's main parachute is pulled open, and the astronaut descends, feet first, at 15 ft. per sec.-slow enough for a safe landing on either water or solid ground...
Under the federal Urban Renewal Act, cities are allowed to consider university-spent land-improvement money as part of the 17 per cent city share of the Federal-State-City expense sharing plan. The federal government puts up 66 per cent of urban renewal costs, and the state the final 17 per cent...
...baseball purists will say that pitching is 75 per cent of the game, and thus the Red Sox are a fluke team and will inevitably collapse. But Bostonians will hear none of this heretical talk. The Red Sox, after all, are the Red Sox, and besides, they have been defying all logic since April. Why can't they do it for a little while longer...