Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...landing strip in San Diego, Ralph's mind began to wander. He took to peering stealthily over the dining hall checker's shoulder to see whether or not he had eaten dinner, he hummed Carpenters' songs quietly to himself, and he hadn't slept since a fitful doze twenty thousand feet above Providence. Worst, he believed he was on to some kind of new conspiracy...
...will be sitting in Memorial Hall, writing an exam for Social Sciences 4, "Film and Anthropology," in the company of a few dozen of his classmates. On the other hand, last Sunday he was in Carnegie Hall, playing in a Brahms sextet before an audience of two thousand. Because Yo Yo already plays the cello better than almost anyone in the world, success is not going to bother him with struggling up through the ranks, trying out for free-lance jobs, or any of that. Martha Babcock '72 and Ronan Lefkowitz '75 are successes in their own right, having leapt...
...Heyer holds undisputed title of queen of the genre--has neither the suspense of a good spy story or the nose-to-the-ground clue-tracking of a murder mystery, and has no social significance whatsoever. Heyer deals exclusively with the frivolous world of England's Upper Ten Thousand at the turn of the nineteenth century, and any similarity between the world of social conventions and affected mannerisms she describes and the one we live in is purely coincidental...
...demands a peculiar kind of precision from police officers, namely a certainty about how much grass makes an ounce. A Los Angeles importer says he has sold several thousand pocket-size scales from Hong Kong to various police departments. In Los Angeles, the scales will be standard patrol-car equipment. San Francisco police, however, are relying on the less scientific rule that an ounce of marijuana is the amount that can be cupped in both hands without spilling any. Sacramento sheriff's deputies judge an ounce by how much will fit into a plastic sandwich bag, a traditional dope...
Since 1940 Mexico City's population has grown from 1.5 million to more than 11 million, nearly a third of whom live without some city services. Many are campesinos fleeing rural poverty, who crowd into the capital on an average of a thousand a day. Warning posters emphasizing Mexico City's smog, traffic and unemployment are posted in marketplaces to discourage the peasant migration. But still they come...