Word: traced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHOICE OF WEAPONS, by Gordon Parks. The well-known Negro photographer recounts without a trace of self-pity his struggle to find a better weapon than hatred to use against the injustices he encountered in a white man's society...
...Thailand did not have to fight a long, bitter war against a colonial power, as Viet Nam did against the French. Thailand has an efficient civil service, police force and school system that penetrate even to the most remote Northeastern hamlet. And, far from least, King Bhumibol Adulyadej can trace his Chakri dynasty in an unbroken line back to 1782. The King's picture hangs in practically every house and humble hut in Thailand, where he is not only liked and considered a symbol of Thai independence, but revered as a living...
...aware that they are gently trembling and jittering with insectile gestures. Like molecules jostling to the ceaseless rhythms of Brownian movement, they express physical uncertainty and ambiguous motion. "Watch a plane in the sky," says Bury. "It barely seems to be moving. The eye is no longer able to trace the action, although it can easily follow a horse galloping along a country road...
...trades his Neapolitan approach to a song for a country-and-Western beat that fits in fine with his own easy style. Guitars twang and fiddles saw the hillbilly sound in King of the Road, My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You, Walk On By-all sung without a trace of tomato paste...
...most useful of all-purpose tools. Every office worker and housewife has taken advantage of this fact for years, but it took the Germans to make a definitive study. Alarmed at the rate at which its clips were disappearing, a Munich manufacturing firm sent spies out to trace the fate of 100,000 of them...