Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Right Stuff, Wolfe...
...investment of $20,000, about 20 times the cost of using a gill net. In the Chippewa view, the dispute is plain enough: it is between poor Indians who fish for a living and rich whites who fish for fun. Says Chippewa Elmer LeBlanc: "Our forefathers gave us the right to hunt and fish. I want it to be a livelihood...
...with life-and-death municipal services like police and fire departments. "The property tax is a killer," says Edward Chenevert, library director in Portland, Me. Complains Dale Perkins, 46, library director for California's San Luis Obispo County: "We are just one sixty-fifth of the county budget-right in there with mosquito abatement...
Which of the following words best completes this sentence: "How the ____ roses flush up in the cheeks." Red? Pretty? Yellow? The answer, according to the intelligence testmakers who devised that question more than a decade ago, is "red." But, observes a provocative new tabloid called Testing Digest, red is right "only if the cheek in question is white...
NONFICTION: Charmed Lives, Michael Korda ∙ Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov ∙ The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe ∙ The White Album, Joan Didion ∙ W.H. Auden, Charles Osborne ∙ Zebra, Clark Howard