Word: tined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question was given greatest emphasis when Steve Allen launched into a protracted fund-raising "rou- tine." "Who will give one hundred dollars for peace?" Allen asked, "those people willing to contribute please raise their hands." Then, attempting to collect donations from $50 to $1.00, he teased the crowd with such phrases eas "a city of this affluence," "an audience as intelligent as this," and "show your interest in peace...
...When God had finished making the world," say the natives of Mani, "he had a sack of stones left over and he emptied it here." Petroprolific Mani is the middle tine of a twisted three-pronged peninsular fork that jabs into the Mediterranean from Greece's Peloponnesus. About as remote from the 20th century as the people of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Maniots dwell in a kind of telescopic time capsule that includes Homer but little more than a hint of the Industrial Revolution. Few Maniots read or write. They have no radios, movies or telephones...
...Poacher's Daughter. Being a rustic Irish comedy, the film is a pack of delightful lies: white lies, green lies, slick, sly, funny lies-every one as harmless as the tine of a hayfork. With Julie Harris and the players of the Abbey Theater...