Word: pined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While studying at Berkeley (architecture), I was-on many occasions-much closer than 50 feet to those "great men." One had me, all morning long, drawing horizontal lines on a large piece of white paper. Another watched me while I sawed pine blocks. Take- it-or-leave-it education ? They can have it! ALLAN HUPER Houston...
...legal in the U.S. to bury the dead, unembalmed, in a plain pine box (though a licensed funeral director must be present), but according to the Department of Commerce an estimated $1.5 billion was spent on burials in the U.S. in 1959, or about $907.83 per death. Writes Jubilee: "Our ancestors lived with death and feared it; we have funeral directors instead, and neither know death nor theoretically fear it. It seems, as Scott Fitzgerald might have said, to be something you do with money...
...Mountains, unloaded their cargo of French paratroopers. In the narrow valleys below, French infantry sweated and scrambled their way up the rocky slopes. Trapped between land and air, units of the rebel F.L.N. fought to the death or fled into the surrounding oak and pine forests. A French communiqué tersely announced that 300 rebels were slain...
Closeup (ABC), a documentary series with an enlightened sponsor (Bell & Howell), opened with a telling study of "prejudice in the North.'' From Puerto Rican Harlem to South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation for Sioux Indians, from the besetting problems of a Negro lawyer in Los Angeles to the defeating frustrations of a Jewish doctor trying to buy a home in Grosse Pointe, Mich., the program moved quietly around the country to make its point that discrimination is not merely a regional disgrace...
...guest to the summer lodge at Murree, overlooking Rudyard Kipling's storied mountain city of Rawalpindi. For two days, as 70-year-old Nehru gradually perked up from the aftereffects of a recent cholera shot and a tooth extraction, the two British-educated leaders walked in the pine-fringed garden and delicately explored their differences. It was, said an aide, a "conversation by suggestion, by implication, by pregnant pause, by meaningful silence." Before each session. President Ayub presented his guest with a new rose or a sprig of garden phlox for his buttonhole...