Word: sug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Decatur, Mich., grandmother tells of Depression-era schemes to beat the cold: smearing a paste of flour and water into cracks, stuffing thickly folded newspapers between window and screen. "And we usually put hot-water bottles into our beds to keep our feet warm," she says. Other sug gestions: wrapping water heaters in blankets, insulating windows with corrugated cardboard and placing old carpets under new ones...
While much of Bubbling Brown Sug ar is saturated with nostalgia, one girl in it, Vivian Reed, has the fresh, flaming force of a new comet entering the earth's orbit. Her movement is sinuous, her presence is magnetic, her voice is torchy. Sans Con Edison, she could light up a Broadway marquee...
Second Round. Kissinger arrived with new proposals of his own. One sug- gestion was what he described as "sequential negotiations" in which Israel and Egypt would take the lead in be ginning the second round of peace talks this year. Jordan and Israel would commence talks after that, either simultaneously or after the Egyptian talks con cluded (estimated deadline: in about six months). Since both sides agree that the U.S. is still the essential mediator, and since the Arabs still resist face-to-face meetings with Israel, American negotiators also propose talks among sub-ministers - with Assistant Secretary of State...
...Learn. Nothing less than a complete refashioning of education will solve the problem, the commission concluded. Their long, somewhat obscurely written report, recognizing that no one system could fit all countries' needs, of fers no specific blueprint. It does sug gest, however, that all education should ideally be integrated with workaday life, using flexible, out-of-school approaches that make education start in very early childhood and end only with death...