Word: shallows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doorstep, and I will have a straight answer 20 years hence when I am asked, "Where were you when...?" I am also beginning to understand what the neutrality of scholarship really means in human terms; its euphemistic clarity is like that of a mountain stream: crystalline and shallow at the same time. Sincerely, (signed) Jon Livingston...
Green Cards. Wetbacks from Mexico have been entering the U.S. in a rising flood. Last month border patrolmen of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service seized more than 14,000-1,000 more than the monthly average. Thousands more filter past roadblocks and airplane spotters or wade the shallow Rio Grande in search of jobs as "stoop" laborers on farms. Most wetback workers make it across the border on their own. Illegal labor contractors smuggle others across...
...fellow Spaniards Dali and Picasso. As one of the earliest and most abstract of all the surrealists, Miró was already a near-legendary figure among his fellow painters by the 1930s. But even in the 1960s, there are still critics who argue that his art is too shallow, too cheerful, too clever and, above all, too personal and too eclectic to rank as truly great...
...deepest spot. "Regretfully," the court disagreed. The pool had been used for more than two years without an accident, and the owner had no reason to consider it dangerous. In any case, Telak had been around the pool for many hours and should have known how shallow the water...
...Biased, one-sided, dishonest, shoddy, shallow, oversimplified, misleading and distorted." Pretty strong words for a Cabinet member to use, but Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman was in a foaming rage over CBS's recent "Hunger in America" documentary, which had levelled an equally angry attack on Government food programs. Freeman demanded equal time from the network to refute the "greatest abuse ever seen on the tube" and "to assure the hungry of this nation that the Department of Agriculture is doing what it can for them-and wants to do a great deal more." He charged CBS with "gross errors...