Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...today, Shorter passed the first mile in a reported 4:22 and in the process spread out the field. Colburn held on for a short time, but eventually fell back into stride and would up 12th...
Last week a Virginia Circuit Court of Appeals convicted a member of the Big Stone Gap congregation, Roscoe Mullins, 50, of violating a state law against handling snakes "in such a manner as to endanger the life or health of any person." (Another defendant, Kenneth Short, was acquitted of the same charge.) The prosecution claimed that Mullins had also handled the snakes at the service, thus endangering other worshipers. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail and a $50 fine. Released on $2,000 bond, Mullins said that he would appeal all the way to the Supreme Court...
...trouble was that a new black market, this time dealing in MFCs, quickly developed. Although scrip was not supposed to be tendered off the base, G.I.s who were short of Vietnamese piastres often used it to pay bills in native stores and bars, generally exchanging it near the official rate of 118 piastres to the dollar. Such MFCs would then wind up in the hands of Chinese and Indian money-changers, who in turn realized a fast profit by selling them at 140 piastres to the dollar...
Women have always been masters at devastating domestic retort in art as well as life. Feminine sensibility in fiction is popularly supposed to deify feeling, but the better women novelists have customarily proved short on gush and coolly capable of dealing out the kind of cruel punishments that love gone wrong (or right) often seems to breed. It is hardly surprising, in this age when violence seems so fashionable, to find a handful of female writers, some celebrated, some not, skillfully spinning tales of love and death...
...self-recognition. His own view of the constant alteration of point-of-view is that it is the most direct form of personal education. "What else can you mean by consciousness expanding," he asks, "than the attempt to comprehend all the life styles in an age?" This is his short-hand way of expressing the old desire for transcendence. A man who is nothing, after all, is potentially everything. "Studying the Puritans or watching you try to figure me out, Sabel," he once said, "are just ways of playing god." Sometimes he imputes his powers of negative capability to everyone...