Word: rebuild
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next 40 years we must rebuild the entire urban United States. It is harder and harder to live the good life in American cities. There is the decay of the centers and the despoiling of the suburbs. There is not enough housing for our people or transportation for our traffic. Open land is vanishing and old landmarks are violated. Worst of all, expansion is eroding the precious and time-honored values of community with neighbors and communion with nature. Our society will never be great until our cities are great...
EPISODE-REPORT ON THE ACCIDENT INSIDE MY SKULL, by Eric Hodgins. The author of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House tells what it was like to rebuild his life after a "cerebrovascular accident" (in layman's terms, a stroke) left him paralyzed four years ago. Hodgins wrote this book with ballpoint pens (he can no longer use a typewriter), but it has Mr. Blandings' old wit and wordcraft...
EPISODE-REPORT ON THE ACCIDENT INSIDE MY SKULL, by Eric Hodgins. The author of Mr. BIandings Builds His Dream House tells what it was like to rebuild his life after a major "cerebrovascular accident" (in layman's terms, a stroke) left him severely paralyzed four years ago. Hodgins wrote this book with ballpoint pens (he can no longer use a typewriter), but it has Mr. Blandings' old wit and wordcraft...
Notwithstanding their fears, the Alaskans were also exuding confidence. To many, the earthquake was a blessing in disguise: an opportunity to rebuild the state, a chance to tear down the rest of the antiquated and otherwise unsuitable structures in the towns and to create modern cities that could blossom in a fresh and viable economy. "The history of areas like this," said Anchorage Banker Elmer Rasmuson, "is that they rebuild and get much better than they were before. I'm satisfied that we have the basic soundness on which to rebuild in a more modern fashion. This...
...various forms by either the French or Diem. Khanh promises to create "a highly trained guerrilla force that can beat the Viet Cong on its own ground," wants to strengthen the often timid paramilitary forces, such as hamlet militias. He has begun training a corps of civil administrators to rebuild war-shattered local governments. And he proposes to revive and improve Diem's strategic-hamlet program; however, instead of forcing peasants into the armed compounds, Khanh says he will make the program voluntary, and he wants to make it less passive...