Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when did the cultural elements (art forms, techniques, tools, customs) move across the Pacific? Dr. Ekholm does not know, but he suspects that the early high civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley, characterized by agriculture, pottery-making and pyramid-building, set up a cultural tremor that lapped most of the world. Traders, explorers, fugitives and raiders carried the techniques with them, just as their modern equivalents carry the catching customs of modern industrialism. Probably faint cultural ripples, relayed slowly from people to people, and from island to island for thousands of years, finally crossed the ocean...
Jesse Stuart's sister was "a beautiful, blue-eyed girl of 19" when she took over the job of teaching the one-room school at a place he chooses to call Lonesome Valley, Ky. She came home shortly after that a nervous wreck. Among other things, one of her gangling first-graders, a teen-ager named Guy Hawkins, had blacked her eyes and "whipped her before the Lonesome Valley pupils...
...Jesse, that was a triumph, but his troubles had just begun. When he let his boys.& girls sit together, instead of keeping them on separate sides of the room, the bearded farmers of the valley grumbled that he was running "a courting school." When he went to call on the lady teacher in the next town ("pretty as a speckled pup," people had told him), the men & boys of her town ambushed him and bombarded him with rotten eggs...
...daylight came, the lonely cluster of buildings on the edge of the great dry valley hummed with nervous tension. This rocket, the Viking II, had misfired two weeks before, and a rocket that has once misfired makes everyone a little nervous. Sometimes rockets "walk" (i.e., move sidewise) on firing; sometimes they explode prematurely. On such occasions the control blockhouse, which looks like a concrete igloo, is a good place...
From the great valley, telescopic and radar and camera eyes were focused. Radio intercoms, film recorders, telemetering devices, electronic computers, machines that still have no names were tuned up and throbbing eagerly...