Word: pioneers
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...Intern was unconvinced, for he was from the Northwest where the winters are also cold, but, as he was quick to point out, there still remained vestiges of an art to living. Maybe it was the pioneer spirit, he thought. Or maybe it was something in the croissants on the East Coast. Whatever it was, he didn't like...
...beneath the high-flying rhetoric and green and white balloons, there was frustration and despair. As the clock runs out, the ERA movement remains at a standstill. In Manhattan, Pioneer Feminist Betty Friedan called for "an emergency mobilization." But even she conceded: "It's going to take a miracle...
...audiences: Ashton's Rhapsody, a glittering display originally created for Mikhail Baryshnikov; MacMillan's Gloria, a dark ode to the generation killed in the Great War, set to the bright strains of Poulenc; and Isadora, also by MacMillan, a tasteless, breast-baring melodrama about Modern Dance Pioneer Isadora Duncan, with a pastiche score by Richard Rodney Bennett. In addition, the Royal performed, for the first time in New York City, MacMillan's La Fin du Jour, a febrile evocation of the vanished world of the Bright Young Things...
People indulge in nonverbal communication not basically to be clever or devious but because these ways of communicating are deeply embedded in the habits of the species and automatically transmitted by all cultures. So says Anthropologist Ray Birdwhistell, a pioneer in the study of kinesics, as body language is called. Other experts point out that signaling by movement occurred among lizards and birds, as well as other creatures, even before mammals emerged...
...forging talents to toolmaking. In the 18th century, craftsmen gathered in the manufacturing hubs of England, France, Germany and Sweden to fashion tools that would enable machines to produce items like clocks and locks. The trade flourished most dramatically in America. In the early 1800s, Eli Whitney helped to pioneer mass production, using standardized, interchangeable parts at his Connecticut musket factory. By the early 1900s, the toolmaker's skills enabled machines to engrave the Lord's Prayer on a sliver of metal less than one-hundredth of an inch wide...