Word: stackful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children's playground downtown, he was told only that it "belongs to the government." In fact, it is Hoa Lo prison, the notorious "Hanoi Hilton," where captured Americans were held. Today it serves as a jail for common criminals. Another visitor noticed on sale in a shop a stack of pocket-size packages of Kleenex, obviously liberated from a U.S. Army PX in the South. His escort explained, "That is merely a souvenir from Ho Chi Minh City [as Saigon has been renamed]." Our guides unabashedly confessed to listening to the Voice of America. They prefer country-and-western...
Clinicians of a more humanistic persuasion, such as Harry Stack Sullivan, have taken a much more positive view of homosexual and bisexual adaptations. A notable example of an enlightened clinician is Carl Rogers. Appearing last year as the Burton lecturer for the Graduate School of Education, Rogers stated his support for sexual variations, which he termed "lifestyles"; he repeated his belief that public opinion is in a process of positive change toward tolerance and acceptance...
...stories continued (there's one about spending New Year's Eve in Grand Forks, S.D., for a tournament in a converted barn) and the nostalgia flowed as a middle-aged man contemplated the chin-high stack of application folders piled on his Byerly Hall desk. And for a moment, you might wonder if Brad Richardson was thinking of asking Brian Petrovek to trade places with him this Monday night at the Garden. You could sense that he was once again hearing the crowd buzz and roar with delight for his kick-save of a slapper from the point. Beanpot fever...
...would permanently deface the land and cause widespread erosion) without discouraging investment by the coal companies-a formula exceedingly difficult to devise. Moreover, scores of new mines will have to be opened in the East. To avoid health hazards, effective scrubbers-devices that remove dangerous sulfur fumes from the stack gases of coal-burning plants-must be perfected and other means found to treat high-sulfur coal. All that will require billions of dollars in new capital for what is now a $5 billion industry...
...rest of his day is a marathon of meetings-with soap-opera writers, sitcom producers, cartoon animators, promotion experts, demographics wizards. He returns to his Central Park West apartment for dinner with his wife Cathy and their daughter Melissa, 4, then holes up in his den with a stack of scripts, a rack of video cassettes and two cassette players, which he watches simultaneously...