Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...owner of a campground outside Marseille was surprised to see an emaciated woman, sunburned and unkempt, stagger toward him from a stand of fir trees. Joan Tunney Wilkinson, 30, daughter of former Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney, identified herself and asked for a drink of water, thereby ending a massive two-month-long search that began after she left her husband and two small daughters in Norway. According to Paris' France-Soir, the couple had quarreled, then separated to cool off, after agreeing to meet in Hamburg 15 days later. Apparently suffering from amnesia, the attractive brunette never kept...
...which definitely turned off Florida's Governor Claude Kirk Jr. "Kids are taught patriotism and morality in the classroom," he told a civic club audience, "but when they get home they see a television set with this dirty old lady...
...fall of 1884, when he heard that dinosaur remains had been discovered in a stone quarry near Manchester, Conn., Yale University's Othniel Charles Marsh, a pioneering paleontologist, rushed off to see for himself. Sure enough, there were the fossilized bones of a small (7-ft.-long) creature that was later identified as Ammosaurus major, an inhabitant of the area 200 million years ago. But Marsh was already too late. The dinosaur's front half had already been carted away; the brownstone in which the fossils were encased had been cut into blocks and cemented into...
...young lawyers who run the OEO Legal Services Program see themselves as ombudsmen for the poor. As such, they do more than represent individual indigents in minor court actions. They also sue state and local governments on behalf of welfare recipients, migrant workers and other large groups of poor people. The growing success of such broad test cases may be measured by the opposition that has surfaced in the U.S. Senate...
...California off the continent and set it afloat in the sea, the island state might survive. But could the rest of the U.S.? California is virtually a nation unto itself, but it holds a strange hope, a sense of excitement-and some terror-for Americans. As most of them see it, the good, godless, gregarious pursuit of pleasure is what California is all about. The citizens of lotusland seem forever to be lolling around swimming pools, sautéing in the sun, packing across the Sierra, frolicking nude on the beaches, getting taller each year, plucking money off the trees...