Word: powders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DECATUR, Ala.--The anvil shooting contest at Wednesday's "Spirit of America" fest did not come off because of a lack of gun powder, but there were political fireworks aplenty as Senator Kennedy and Gov. Wallace tried to forge a union between the disparate elements of the Democratic Party...
Aunt Augusta crowds the apartment she and Wordsworth share with souvenirs of her continental high life, but they give it only a faded ratty elegance. Glass ornaments flash everywhere -- the powder jars and pin bowls, gold cherubs and a chandelier that looks like an upside-down wedding cake are cheap reminders of now hollow dreams. For at 70, she is unmarried, childless, and penniless, and the mauve colored gauze through which she views her world cannot protect her from...
Twice daily, passenger trains-with heavily armed troops riding shotgun -puff along in each direction. In Danang, about 3,000 of the city's refugees and unemployed have been hired by the government at 650 per day to help rebuild the city. Identified by their powder blue vests, they lay new sidewalks, clean drains, and will plant some 300,000 trees along the beaches...
...personnel shifts might just as well give up: the word will get to their employees on the company grapevine. So concludes Keith Davis, a professor of management at Arizona State University, who has been studying office and factory rumors for 20 years. "With the rapidity of a burning powder train," Davis asserts, "information flows out of the woodwork, past the manager's door and the janitor's mop closet, through steel walls or construction-glass partitions." Moreover, "well over three-fourths" of company rumors are accurate...
...another painful, but probably unproductive debate over financing graduate education. The Union will probably be here. The remaining share of federal funds may even be here. Administrators are eternally here. And the problems of priorities and power which necessitated the Kraus plan and then turned it into a powder keg will undoubtedly be here to loom over the entire community as soon as the Kraus plan comes up for revision...