Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Drury never uses these descriptions. They are used initially by the liberal demagogue, ex-Senator Fred Van Ackerman. They are first censured, then pitied, then embraced by leading members of the printed and broadcast media who, confronted by the possibility that China will defeat Russia in their atomic contest, resort to whatever slogans desperation suggests to try to swing American public opinion behind the Russian cause. I describe this process step by step, as the media's panjandrums reluctantly but inexorably leave sanity behind and begin hysterically to raise the bugaboo of "the yellow peril...
...that unpredictability belongs to Segura, a Clausewitz of subtle shots and stratagems. As a small player who uses a two-handed forehand, Segura is in many ways the perfect teacher for Connors. Before all of Connors' big matches, he and Pancho, currently teaching pro at La Costa, a resort north of San Diego, review the opponent's style and prepare a game plan. "I tell him how to beat these guys," says Segura...
...Louis catch flounder in Gill nets. April through September; then it's cod season and they alternate between the nets and trawling with baited hooks. Hooks are a last resort since the bait is expensive, the method laborious. A day often lasts from five in the morning until seven at night, and they must go out every day. Nets are left out for a day, then hauled into the boat and reset. A day only lasts until one in the afternoon, and the day in between they mend nets or work on the boat...
...there is a middle way, one now being tested in Suffolk County on the eastern end of Long Island. Famous for the Hamptons, a string of summer resort communities along the Atlantic Ocean beaches, Suffolk has 40,000 acres of cropland that has made it the most productive farm county in New York State. The land is also perfect for developers-pancake flat and on the edge of the sprawling metropolitan area formed by New York City and its neighboring Nassau County suburbs. To keep the developers from obliterating Suffolk's rural character, the citizens of the county have...
...food crisis is immense, yet a real solution can not resort to coercion and callousness. Man need not be seen as a cancerous evil. Indeed, as Blake wrote, "Where nature is and man is not, nature is barren." A true solution must affirm the worth and goodness of man, while recognizing the evil he has done. A true solution must be one that speaks for those who are voiceless...