Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brightening the Dull. Through the densest economic thicket Sylvia blazes a simple trail. "You wouldn't by any chance have $460 tucked away in your pocketbook or wallet or lying around the house this minute, would you?" she once asked in her column. "As a typical American family, that's the astounding total you're now supposed to be holding in CASH. The statistics are indisputable, unassailable." After this arresting lead, guaranteed to nail the typical American reader, she led a quick tour of a difficult subject: a report on the national currency hoard...
...keeps dodging. Underneath the usual evasions lies, of course the usual fear of life, but he'll be damned if he's going to open that can of worms. ) they bicker, make up, get engaged take his mother (Chiarina Barile) to an old folks home, trail her all over town when she runs away, bicker, break up. The crisis comes, their lives turn on a instant when the hero, wandering through a vast metropolitan cemetery in search of his fathers grave, understands that he must choose between life, personified in the girl he loves, and death, embodied...
...train, boat and plane, the handsome young Harvard man beat his way through 15,000 miles of back-country Pakistan, winding up the tour last week by bouncing in a Jeep over 75 miles of mule trail to the remote Himalayan state of Hunza near the borders of Russia and Red China...
...statement on Kennedy's behalf: "Senator Kennedy considers it wholly improper and alien to our democratic system for churchmen of any faith to tell the members of their church for whom to vote or for whom not to vote." Thus, once more Candidate Kennedy had helped blaze a trail for American Catholics in their evolving effort (TIME, Oct. 10) to get the church-state relationship in a democracy clarified once...
...skills necessary to solve problems, progressive schools resort to a kind of subliminal advertising. They start out with "units of experience" built around such hardy fascinators as "the Red Man." After interviewing an imported chief in full headdress, children write Indian themes-supposedly absorbing grammar and spelling along the trail...