Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Kennedy looked across the flat land toward the Missouri River, its waters imprisoned behind the world's largest rolled earth dam (Oahe: 242 ft. high, 9,300 ft. long). Behind the river rose the brown buttes of South Dakota's cattle country. The President opened his speech to some 9,000 persons with a deeply heartfelt cliche: "I want to express my great pleasure and tell you what a privilege it is to leave Washington these days and come out here." Kennedy had every reason to enjoy being away from Washington: the Democratic Congress was still giving...
...trained to sniff out narcotics, recently led officers to a cache of marijuana hidden in a meat freezer beneath ten pounds of frankfurters. The techniques are unusual-and so are the results: last year the average crime rate in U.S. cities with a population of more than 25,000 rose 2%; in St. Louis, however, it dropped a surprising...
Hargis (g as in give) came from a strongly religious family. His father, a dollar-a-day truck driver during the Depression, was an elder in Texarkana's Rose Hill Christian Church. Hargis recalls that "the first promise I made was to read the Bible all the way through every year. But I haven't had time recently to continue it." After graduating from high school, Hargis got a job in a defense plant, earned enough money in six months to quit and enter the Ozark Bible College at Bentonville, Ark., in 1943. "I stayed a year...
...trade there. One dawn the Blackfeet were attacked by neighboring tribes, jealous of the Blackfeet's trading privileges. Bodmer sketched the massacre-the best eyewitness scene of an Indian fight ever made-while the prince set down notes: "We were awakened by musket-shot upon which we rose in haste and loaded our fowling pieces with ball...
Three Concerns. The factory work week during July averaged 40.4 hours, highest for any July since 1950, reported the Labor Department. But the average stood at 40.8 hours in April, has been declining for three months. Personal income rose in July to a record $442 billion; but that was a disappointing gain of only .3% over June...