Word: rafted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earth-circling trips of the astronauts and cosmonauts were almost as passive as floating down a river on an oarless raft. Making a rendezvous in space will have to be learned by long, expensive and dangerous practice, The basic trainers will...
Still, unless and until the bodies bob up in the water, there would remain the possibility of a successful escape. One woman, for example, reported seeing three men on a raft; police gave it a good try, but found neither men nor raft. And, as for the chagrined officials of Alcatraz, they had learned at least one lesson from the tablespoon trio: start counting the silver before, not after, the guests leave...
Okeefenokee is an idyl, rather than a satirist's world. There is a lovely radiant idleness about all those scenes which show the characters lazily fishing, or sleeping on a raft--"The S.S. Kenneth G." What shapes the boundaries of the idyl is a distrust of all the official frauds and postures that keep the real world together, all the speeches and slogans and generals and college songs and national anthems and figures like the Minute Man and Senators. The termite walking along with Pogo states Okefenokee's view of matters pithily--"It'll be a long time afore they...
...Vocational High School are cards bearing a Ben Franklin motto: "He that hath a trade hath an estate." The exhortation is hardly needed at the rambling tan brick school on Chicago's squalid South Side. To its 2,300 youngsters, 99% of them Negro, Dunbar is a life raft in a sea of poverty. It is perhaps the most effective vocational school...
Whale or minnow, the incident did not improve South Bend's nerves. Until the current strike, Studebaker-Packard and the United Auto Workers had got along as well as two men struggling to keep a raft afloat in an ocean. In the past seven years, only eight production days had been lost to strikes. The U.A.W. had even accepted lower wages from S.P. than from the industry's Big Three to help the company survive...