Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yale's Professor Robert Dahl, in a study of New Haven politics, points out that a genuinely ethnic group remains seriously ethnic only so long as it remains proletarian. But the time comes when large segments of the group are assimilated into the "middling and upper strata ... and look to others in the middling strata for friends, associates and marriage partners. To these people, ethnic politics is often embarrassing or meaningless." In New Haven, he set rough dates for the achievement of this state by various groups-the Germans by 1920, the Irish 1930, Russians 1940, Italians 1950, Negroes...
Smith matched Garrity's act 14 seconds before the period ended, flipping the puck into the upper right corner of the nets...
...evident that the Vatican commission is stalemated," said Miller. "The Conservative group still seems to have the upper hand." The Vatican commission was authorized to study the birth control problem by the Church's Ecumenical Council, which has been split by liberal and conservative factions...
...patriotic as the rest, but she cannot resist giving her Thanksgiving a French accent. The turkey she and Paul will share with her sister-in-law in Bucks County, Pa., is called dindon demi-désossé (see diagram). To make it easier to carve, the upper part of the rib cage is removed before roasting. She plans to use a sausage and bread-crumb dressing (rough measurement is I cup of dressing for each pound of "bought weight"), recommends marinating the cut-up breast meat in cognac, shallots, salt and pepper for 20 minutes while preparing the stuffing...
Around the middle of every November, the earth is involved in a headlong collision; it plows full tilt into a stream of meteoroids that heat into shooting stars as they plunge through the upper atmosphere. Most years, hardly anyone notices. Only astronomers and dedicated amateurs take note of the few brief, blazing arcs that make up the "Leonid showers," named for the constellation Leo, which appears behind them in the sky. This week the celestial fireworks promise to be far more gaudy than usual. Instead of half a dozen or so meteors per hour, the count in the early morning...