Word: pining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they yearn to escape. Calvin Coolidge used to flee to his father's farm in Vermont to enjoy the tranquillity of the haying season. Herbert Hoover cast flies into Virginia's Rapidan River. Harry Truman swam off the beach at Key West, and Dwight Eisenhower drove golf balls through pine-edged fairways in Colorado...
...being tried in several small and medium-size companies on the West Coast, well pay rewards people for doing what they are supposed to do: go to work regularly and on time. Some results have been impressive. Reports James Parsons, 59, president of Parsons Pine Products of Ashland, Ore., maker of nearly 80% of the nation's wooden mousetrap bases: "Our absenteeism has dropped 30%, and our tardiness is almost zero." Parsons' incentive: an extra day's pay at the end of every month to workers who are punctual. Reichhold Chemicals' fiberglass manufacturing division in Irwindale, Calif, offers half...
...trail meets the Suli Gad high up the valley in grottoes of bronze-lichened boulders and a shady riverside of pine and walnut and warm banks of fern. Where morning sun lights the red leaves and the dark still conifers, the river sparkles in the forest shad ow; turquoise and white, it thunders past spray-shined boulders, foaming pools, in a long rocky chute of broken rapids. In the cold breath of the torrent, the dry air is softened by mist; this water trickled through the snow under last night's stars. At the head of the waterfall, downstream...
...Well, this is a fine how-do-you-do. Listen, you SOB, the last time I saw you was during the Penn game last fall, when you were hanging out with a pint of Wild Turkey and a sleazy-looking blonde from Pine Manor...
...brother now that his father had been immobilized by illness. Looking happy and even jubilant tonight. Good singer, John ny, best in class. Not a bad actor. Played George Gibbs in the senior production of Our Town and still thinks of Grover's Corners when, from soaring Pine Hill across the river, he looks down on the tilted strew of toy buildings that are Kittanning...