Word: reached
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year, Harvard earned points for its answer to the question "How long were Abraham Lincoln's legs?" "Long enough to reach the ground," a student replied...
...keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility." And so, to Pinter's people, speech is a strategy for escaping detection. They reverse their statements and talk past other people in order to avoid their reach. Like children, they refuse to answer questions because they hear them all too clearly...
...well." But the remaining 12% of the disputes present major headaches for industry and for the economy as a whole. If the Ford strike lasts until Thanksgiving, former CEA Chairman Walter Heller last week warned the Economic Club of Detroit, the resulting drop in the gross national product could reach $4 billion...
...average daily volume of 9,875,-000 shares, a level that the exchange had not expected-or even hoped-to reach until 1975, is due to increased buying and selling by institutions that trade in large blocks of stock and thus shoot the totals higher. Many mutual funds, adopting a speculative mood, are turning over the shares in their portfolios far faster than they once did. And staid organizations outside the market are also coming in. Yale University two weeks ago announced that it was forming an investment company to plow more of its endowment money into lucrative common stocks...
...trial. Emotional build-up instead develops from isolated experiences he has under the yoke of different masters. But as the book proceeds, the suppressed rage intensifies, Nat's recitations of Old Testament wrath increase, and the action quickens. Near the end, he recalls the insurrection vividly and hotly. Feelings reach a peak with his murder of Margaret Whitehead, who is Nat's suppressed love and his sole victim. He has been unable to kill at any other point in the insurrection, and after her death there is even a decline in the momentum of the uprising...