Word: restful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...argue that divestiture is insufficient, I ask: when has any revolution, however bloody or peaceful, begun with a claim for complete relief? The Brown decision, twenty five years old on May 17 of this year, surely did not end segregation or discrimination in our schools or in the rest of the country. It was a puny step, but a step in the right direction, a moral act. It led to an end of the most virulent segregation, and paved the way for other civil rights decisions. When Nixon was first attacked for Watergate, who expected him to fall to such...
Greenland is beautiful but barren. Fifty times as big as Denmark, which has ruled it since 1721, it is 85% covered by an icecap up to two miles thick. The rest is rocky terrain virtually devoid of vegetation. On the shores, steep granite and basalt cliffs plunge into ice-choked fjords. Polar bears prowl the far north, reindeer roam the western coastal mountains, and a few hardy sheep are herded in the far south...
Thomas' career had plotted an impressive arc. Though unknown to the general public, he was a successful and esteemed member of the U.S. medical Establishment; he had taught at the right places and run some of them as well. The rest of his life was his to live out in dignified, influential isolation. There was no reason to believe that any work bearing Thomas' name would ever appear on paperback racks in airports or drugstores. But then, as The Medusa and the Snail indicates, there is no reason for expecting many things to happen until they do; only...
Brown then twirled his best ball game in over a month. He retired the next thirteen men without a hit, and succumbed for only one more run the rest of the way when the top of the Cornell order parlayed two singles and a Bengochea sacrifice fly into the game's final tally...
Coach Ted Washburn's heavyweight freshmen crew, also undefeated before the Sprints, met disaster with about 500 meters remaining, when two members of the team caught crabs (a complete loss of synchronization with the rest of the boat). The Crimson, second before the miscue, settled for fifth behind Yale, Northeastern, Wisconsin and Cornell...