Word: ponds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York City residential hotel. A furnace boiler had failed, and the men had huddled under thin blankets as water froze in glasses and ice formed on the cracked plaster of their tenement. In rural Georgia, three young brothers, Timmy Schuler, 11, Brian, 9, and Kirt, 7, romped on a pond covered with ice that had come South with the Northern winter. Timmy saw the younger boys break through and ran to their aid. All three drowned. In Atlanta, Mrs. Irma May Key, 51, died of exposure, after falling a short distance from her apartment. Veronica Hynson, 22, and her three...
...Editors: Your cover picture [Dec. 20] is amusing. It coincided with my concept of President-elect Carter's present status-that of a little boy who learned to swim in mud holes and is now about to jump into a big pond, having no stump or overhanging branches...
...into the Bethesda neighborhood, concealed in cars, vans and a trailer. At the prescribed hour, an agent dropped the bait, a dummy payoff package, beside the hydrant. For the next hour or so, all was tranquil. Several children passed the hydrant on their way to skate on a nearby pond. One boy spotted the package and stopped, but a husky man emerged from a brick house and ordered him on his way. The man began to rake leaves around the house. Several times he approached the package but did not touch it. Finally, when the leaves had been raked into...
...join the broad democratic left of the European Parliament after that new body's first popular election in 1978, Andreotti says, this could create a "berthing place" for their professed democratic pledges. Alongside Western European socialists and social democrats, the Communists would be smaller fish in a bigger pond where it would be safer to test their "untried propositions that are quite new in the history of Communism and have never been successfully realized in the past." For the moment, Andreotti judges, it is a mistake "to take for granted a transformation process that is barely hinted...
...teacher is an old pro, Eddie Waters (Milo O'Shea), whose last laugh seems to have sunk long ago in the still pond of his face. As his students sprint through their routines - ethnic, absurdist one-liners, god-awful - Eddie offers his philosophy of comedy: "A true joke has to do more than release tension, it has to liberate the will and the desire, it has to change the situation...