Word: upper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard scientist said yesterday that industrial and agricultural pollution of the upper stratosphere could cause a 20-percent increase in skin cancer rates in the United States...
...Portuguese Socialist Party (P.S.P.) draws its support from the upper and middle classes, civil servants and students. It favors limited nationalization of basic industries, agrarian reform, and keeping Portugal in NATO. Party Leader Soares, 50, who spent six years in exile in Paris before the revolution, has emerged as one of the country's most respected politicians for his role in negotiating the decolonization of Portugal's African territories...
...Service. Now, however, the London Sunday Times is challenging that subtle censorship by serializing the diaries without Cabinet permission. The series, which began last month, has focused public attention on press restrictions in a country that pays stiff-upper-lip service to free speech...
...hard to argue the point once Aggressor Clarke goes into action. With his long curly hair and toothless smile (his four front upper teeth have been knocked out), "Clarkie" out-hustles everyone on the ice, even though he is a diabetic. When teammates do not put out, he blasts them; when he makes a bad pass himself he jams his stick against the boards and curses. One measure of his play can be found in the assist column: Clarke has scored only 15 goals this season, but he has made 53 assists...
...Arnold's Victorian faith in a secular religion of truth and beauty. Eustace Tilley, the magazine's monocled symbol, is clearly an Arnold disciple turned dandy. To be impeccable, graceful and hard-hitting all at the same time is demanding work. So is hanging on to a upper-middle-class audience without seeming frivolous or snobbish...