Word: poore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Straight, one of the board's three commissioners, said yesterday the Boston disco's policy "sets a poor precedent. The disco should treat all college students equally...
...here that is overdrawn. This Holmes at one point looks at the unsuspecting Watson with a gaze so rich in emotion and so reminiscent of Captain Von Trapp that you can almost here the Alps singing in the background. This Holmes really lusts for blood when he grasps that poor unfortunate official's throat. And this Holmes really means to save mankind, all mankind, with his impassioned plea to the powers that be at the end of the movie...
...junior, Andrews suffered a poor tryout and was relegated to the J.V. squad. But captain Barney Cook's broken jaw opened a spot on the lineup and coach Cleary chose Andrews to fill the need for a center...
Cross-country skiing, or ski touring, which for years has dawdled in the valleys, a poor cousin to the downhill variety, has suddenly taken off. With more than 3 million devotees, easily double the number of only two years ago, it is the country's fastest-growing winter sport. "It is bigger than the bowling boom of the '50s, the tennis boom of the '60s and the running boom of the '70s," says Chicago's Morrie Mages, owner of the country's largest sporting-goods store, who has seen his sales of cross-country...
Fear, hate and exploitation are themes that haunt Harry Crews. His fiction (Car, A Feast of Snakes) is peopled by grotesque and tragic victims of the rural South. As his autobiography, A Childhood, reveals, Crews earned his vision. He is, to use his own term, a "grit," a poor white brought up on a Depression dirt farm in Georgia, fearful of landlords, Government, floods, of life itself. Maturity has brought courage, but the shudders of childhood remain. So does the gallery of odd personae who enliven his latest book of personal essays, Blood and Grits...