Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ethic. The longtime housewife who would like to pursue a career and earn her own money; the student who wishes to "stop out" of college for a year to help finance his education; the bored pensioner who yearns to devote his training to something more than basking in the sun-all are likely to give up the job quest. None may suffer hardship, but all have lost some freedom of choice, and society may have lost something as well...
...these matters are far beyond the scope of John Hersey's novel. It's simply too easy for Americans reading More Space to shut out the world, to take refuge below the trees in the Yard and in the sun along the Charles, because Americans have more space...
...National Weather Service uses all the ingenuity of science to forecast sun or rain including satellite pictures of storm patterns and complex computer printouts. On the other hand, a three-year-old 1,400-lb. cow named Bramer trusts more to instinct. When she senses that bad weather is coming the next day, she beds down in her straw-lined stall in Huntsville, Texas. When some thing tells her that a sunny day is due on the morrow, she ventures forth to graze, even if the weather at that moment is drizzly...
...Independent Florida Alligator, the student paper, demanded open hearings to protect the innocent students: "What of next June's graduates, who will carry through life a business degree whose mere date taints their character with suspicion?" Smith joined a law student and the editor of the Gainesville Sun in filing suit against the university under the state's Sunshine Law, which requires public agencies to hold open meetings when they take official action. Circuit Court Judge Robert Green Jr. then issued a preliminary injunction to stop the student honor court from holding secret proceedings...
...remember leaving for Lawrence before noon, with my brother beside me--cradled in the car's flabby front seat. The pavement stretches bone dry in the morning sun, and the light skims the top of every rise. We've just quarreled and I feel like doing something rash, to vent my anger. My brother knows a lot about cars, and he has worked on this one, patching its brittle sides, but the mechanical parts are too worn for salvage. I shouldn't abuse it with him along...