Word: poured
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, on a U.S. Government-sponsored stay in Haiti he senses Jewishness as an unformed community of wanderers. Trips to Israel begin to focus his Jewish heritage. Small, spartan and disciplined by challenge, Israel for Gold seems like some sort of milk farm of the soul. The words pour out - regret for not being worthy of his past, pride at Israel's victory in the Six-Day War, and a feeling that even "the perfect story" and "the perfect girl" are not enough. Amer ica, in fact, is not enough...
After his election to office two years ago, Bakalis held six regional hearings, gathering suggestions and discussing them at a meeting of 3,000 citizens. "We pour our money and, more importantly, our children into the public schools and are given no accounting of what happens to either," was the gist of many complaints. Out of 20 Ibs. of testimony, Bakalis and his associates drew up a set of common goals for Illinois schools in the 1970s, the only ten-year plan of its kind in the U.S. Bakalis promises to experiment with more plans for individualized, go-at-your...
...fact is that most of the U.S.'s national parks are in trouble. Day after day, crowds of tourists-some 200 million of them this year-pour into the national parks, monuments, historic areas and recreation sites. Hoping to escape the social ills of suburbs and cities, the visitors instead bring those ills with them. Bumper-to-bumper traffic, pollution, overcrowding, crime, drugs-every urban problem is now an increasing problem in every major park. Worse, every solution erodes the ideal of preserving nature. To cope with the 2.5 million annual visitors to Yellowstone alone, the National Park Service...
Pierre Waltz, 40-year-old chief executive of the $142-million-a-year Société Suisse pour l'Industrie Horlogère (SSIH) has made pulses tick faster throughout the Swiss watch industry. In the two years since he took over at SSIH, which makes Omega, Tissot and other watches, he has fired hundreds of workers to cut costs, merged with the country's major producer of inexpensive watches to meet increasing competition from the U.S. and Japan, bought out one U.S. firm (Hamilton) and entered into a joint venture with another (Optel, a liquid-crystal...
Hemingway admirers must be unhappy these days, what with the assaults on his character that pour out of other people's memoirs. But if anyone needs to be reminded that Hemingway could dish it out too, Torrents of Spring will do as an example. It is a brutal parody of Sherwood Anderson, a man who influenced Hemingway's prose and helped him materially early in his career...