Word: sections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your excellent photo section and thumbnail sketches of the poor don't deserve the blithe conclusions that go with them. No doubt they were written by the same person who provokes our pity by citing the instance of bags of flour delivered by a misguided welfare agency to "a household that has no oven." Come now, biscuits can be baked anywhere there is a fire to cook with. I have made them: over an open fire wrapped around a green stick, on a flat rock under an old auto fender, on a piep an tilted in front...
When jubilation over recovering the survivors had passed, officials commented sadly that it would take some time to reach the ten bodies in the farthest section. The families of the trapped miners had wandered back to their homes at Hominy Falls (pop. 400) and neighboring hamlets, and began to make less frequent trips to the site. Sobbed Foreman Frank Davis, one of those rescued: "No chance, no chance." Still, it is a mining tradition to keep working until bodies are recovered, so pumping operations continued round the clock as boreholes were drilled 250 feet down to the shaft...
Mister Master. The title mania will be hard to snuff out. A senior administrative court inspector, first class, glories in being called Herr Verwaltungsgerichtoberinspektor, and a section manager at the big German electrical firm of Siemens is an Abteilungsbevollmächtigter (section plenipotentiary), even though he may be in charge of only six men. A man who wants his auto fixed knows that he had better address his mechanic as Herr Meister#151;Mister Master. A university graduate's Herr Doktor becomes part of his name, and if he earns a second degree, he adds it, too, becoming...
With the entire section describing sanctions knocked out of SFAC's resolutions, several Faculty members thought it was unclear whether the remainder could be enforced. One said last night that the University could do no more than request corporations to debate. But SFAC members including Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History, said that SFAC intended the clause to bar any company which refused...
...indictment against the five men today is based on a section of the Universal Military Training and Service Act. The maximum penalty upon conviction is five years in prison and $10,000 fine...