Word: quarterlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vietnam has probably suffered most through its civilian population. At the moment it is estimated that something close to one quarter of the total population are refugees. This number has probably gone up in recent weeks, after the atacks. The problem of refugees is an enormous one because most of the refugees come from the farm. They are peasants who made their living by tilling the land. What they've done was to flee to the cities, where they live in squatters villages surrounding the cities. Many of them in squalor, even the best of them providing nothing...
Shaw paced his teammates to a 4:22 mile mark, and then, as if by plan, turned the lead and pacing duties over to Baker. Shaw dropped out of the race a quarter-mile later with a minor foot injury...
Baker held onto the lead until, with two laps to go, Hardin gave a kick and passed the Englishman. Hardin crossed the finish line after tearing through the final quarter in 64 seconds. Baker finished...
...finished paintings often struck viewers as painfully clumsy. His por traits looked like pillows pounded into more or less human shape. His great slabs of beef (inspired by Rembrandt) were hideously bloodsplattered. His landscapes were wildly out of perspective. Yet today, a quarter of a century after his death (at the age of 50 in Paris), Soutine no longer seems an ec centric maverick; instead he has be come a mainstream figure in 20th cen art. The shift in judgment has been largely caused by the emergence of the New York school of abstract expressionism, whose leaders built with...
...quarter, half, and three-quarter times of Shaw's run were 58.7, 2:01.10, and 3:01.9 respectively...