Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cremens's second inspection on March 1, he recorded on his notation sheet that "some progress" was made. But the tenants still felt that the common areas and other units were in need of repair. In protest, on March 1, some tenants chose to withhold their rent in an escrow account until the building met health guidelines...
...migrant Head Start graduates hold their own academically through the second grade, but then they fall behind, teachers say, unable to master English and buffeted by their turbulent cross-country lives. "Quite honestly, most of the older migrant children are lost when they come here," says Walter Brey, principal of the Palmyra Elementary School, where older migrants attend school while in Wisconsin. But for their younger brothers and sisters, the grounding for education may be the only means of breaking the cycle of wandering and deprivation. Says Migrant Maria Covarabuis, a mother of five: "I want for my children...
...Moscow Olympics were due to begin, an Olympic dress rehearsal opened with a mighty spectacle. The event is Spartakiad,the quadrennial two-week games of the U.S.S.R., and its opening ceremony was the kind of show that the Soviet Union does so well, choreographed to a split second bursting with color and life. Before 103,000 people in Lenin Stadium, folk dancers, marching teams, gymnasts and 6,000 card flashers performed with astonishing precision. Ritual welcomes were delivered, the Olympic torch was lighted, and 3,000 doves soared skyward. All in precisely two hours...
This month Yant's lonely crusade began to bring results. A second grand jury returned a new round of indictments against Weikel. A petition was filed, signed by 6,580 citizens, calling for Weikel's removal. Last week the sheriff pleaded no contest to various misdemeanor charges and resigned from office. The felony charges were dropped. Says...
...road sign for his wife to return, a jackrabbit bounds into his shadow to cool off. This is followed by three rapid epiphanies. First, that his life was a gift to himself and others and that even his share of sunlight and shadow did not belong to him alone. Second, that "he was not trapped into surviving by the currency of the acceptably real." Third, that he could die then and there, "Bred to a harder thing/ than Triumph . . . / be secret and exult,/ Because of all things known/ that is most difficult...