Word: sampler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mail has poured into the Carter transition headquarters by the bushel -more than 5,000 pieces in the first week. The Carter staff announced that the call had yielded over 300 "constructive" suggestions. A sampler...
...explosive in their own way. The package was crammed with secret CIA documents-papers detailing the agency's internal structure, the names and addresses of CIA officials and informants, and the locations of CIA "safe houses" and training sites. An unsigned note described the documents as merely a sampler. For $200,000, the Soviets would get additional secret papers and the names of CIA agents who might be vulnerable to seduction by the KGB. The note instructed the Soviets to make two payoffs-$3,000 to be dropped off at 2 p.m. the next day beside a fire hydrant...
...Little Red Book amply demonstrates, Mao was the most readable of Marxist theoreticians. But in other speeches, poems and letters, Mao displayed even more strikingly than in the book a command of pungent metaphor, as well as occasional flights of lyricism. A sampler...
This year 112 colleges are getting new presidents. A six-school sampler of problems and prospects...
...Viking 1's tests -and those done later by Viking 2 -prove negative, the question of life on Mars will remain unresolved; the landers may simply be in the wrong places, or organisms may be thriving just a few inches below the deepest excavation of the sampler. Or Martian bugs may simply have chemistry so different from that of terrestrial life that Viking may be unable to recognize the alien processes...