Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee leaders hope to reach a compromise with St. Clair. They are willing to discard the idea of taking depositions. Instead, the staff would interview witnesses, who would not be under oath but would be asked to sign their statements. Since these would be less formal than depositions, no cross-examination would be appropriate. Whether committee Republicans will accept that proposal is still in doubt...
...then a rocket sprang and bang shot blind and O! then the Roman candle burst and it was like a sign of O! and everyone cried O! O! in raptures and it gushed out of it a stream of rain gold hair threads and they shed and ah! they were all greeny dewy stars falling with golden, O so lively! O so soft, sweet, soft...
...still chained to a sign post, lie the twisted remains of one of the most revolutionary machines known to man. There, with its spokes broken and seat stolen lies one of the vehicles which helped North Viet Nam break the back of the American military might. Bicycles like that one daily transport the 800 million people of china and most of the rest of the people of the world. Americans with their taste for the automobile are a tiny minority. Bicycles represent the most efficient method of transportation known to man. They allow us to travel five times...
...candidates for other schools. "The referral program is for students from disadvantaged backgrounds who, in many cases, are not informed about the criteria for admission to a place like Harvard. Many times students mistake large colleges' interviewing procedures and willingness to waive application fees as an early sign that they will be admitted. So they don't bother to apply to any back-up schools and after the rejections come they're left with nowhere to go. When we identify such a case, the student is asked if it would be all right for us to forward his name...
Fogel, the son of an immigrant sign painter and a halfwit shopgirl, is born in London and drifts through childhood and adolescence preoccupied with his special powers. He believes he can become what he observes-objects made of stone, iron, wood, glass. "The god he wanted to reach wasn't interested in words. Only in achieved states. Palpable transformations. He would be known only by those who had gone through them." Fogel's crowning obsession is the diamond. Acquiring some through a friendly burglar, he becomes a fanatical student of facets and crystallography, of refraction angles and cleavage...