Word: subbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past, most Russian authors don their own fig leaf and precensor their works before submitting them to the state-owned publishing houses. The more courageous writers have been smuggling their works out to the West, or publishing them in a growing number of crudely printed journals that circulate sub rosa and have an avid readership. Young Leningrad and Moscow writers organized a semisecret association called SMOG (an acronym for youth, courage, image and depth). They not only contribute to such clandestine publications as Phoenix, Sphinx, Kolokol (Bell) and Tetradi (Notebooks), but have secretly published whole works, among them Alexander Urusov...
...reclassify the mile as a dash instead of a run. In the 13 years since Britain's Roger Bannister opened the floodgates by running a 3-min. 59.4-sec. mile, no fewer than 84 athletes have cracked the mythical 4-min. "barrier"-running a total of 278 sub-4-min. miles. Tops among them, of course, is Jim Ryun, the University of Kansas junior who at 20 is already the fastest middle-distance runner of all time. Last month in Bakersfield, Calif., Ryun lowered his own world record for the mile to 3 min. 51.1 sec. Two weeks...
...hearings, the sub-committee asked the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Office of Economic Opportunity, and the Dept. of Agriculture to file a report within 30 days stating "what action they have taken to determine the extent of hunger in this country and what kind of legislation should be adopted to alleviate it," the subcommittee spokesman said...
...pass the Wonderland Ballroom and a mean sub shop on your way to the grandstand. In the backround are the wooden hills and valleys of an amusement park where thrillseekers of a tamer sort celebrate. You follow the sports through a huge parking lot, jammed with Pontiacs, Caddies and Ramblers. You pay your 50 cents, mumble "Yes, I'm 21," and pass through the fateful portals...
...Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin Republican who made wild and unsubstantiated accusations of Communist sub version against Government officials and others, was censured in 1954 on charges of abusing the two committees assigned to investigate his official behavior...