Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stoned Hooligans. Even so, many citizens seem unconvinced that they should keep their hands out of the state till. "People who steal private property are despised," said a Yugoslav radio commentator, "while embezzlers of public funds are admired and looked up to. They are asked how much they got and how they did it." He concluded dolefully: "This is not a proper attitude." A Pole commented: "Stealing from the state is like cheating customs. Everybody does...
...middle years can be wise and felicitous, they can also be foolish and frantic, fraught with nerve-frazzling doubts and despairs, somber with peril and melancholy. The middle-ager usually knows better than to stay up till 4 a.m., but he sometimes finds himself waking up at 4 or 5 a.m. in a swivet of inexplicable panic. He has reached the age of what T. S. Eliot called...
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...Second String. Tillinghast went to high school at New York's Horace Mann, an academically demanding private day school in The Bronx, which was run by his father for 30 years. Explained the school newspaper: "Till can't get high marks because his father is headmaster; Till can't get low marks because his father is headmaster." A scholarship English major at Brown University ('32), Tillinghast also was second-string center on the football team. His big moment came when he blocked a Colby punt in 1932, producing a safety in a game Brown...
...major-league efficiency on the field and, particularly, a confidence in themselves. The high-powered San Francisco Giants have beaten them in 8 out of 12 games this year. But the Astros have beaten the world champion Los Angeles Dodgers in seven out of eleven games. Just wait till next year...