Word: via
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some kinds of spraying do reduce temporarily the local population of some kinds of birds. This is partly because spraying cuts the insect food supply, but when DDT is used in large quantities, it may also kill birds directly. When it gets into the soil, it may kill birds via contaminated earthworms for several years...
...motorcade of 12 cars will form at the American Airlines maintenance hanger and proceed to the B.C. main gate via the Sumner Tunnel, Storrow Drive, and Soldiers Field Road, then to Market St., Brighton, to Chestnut Hill Ave., and straight out Commonwealth...
Winnie did not attend the ceremony, but viewed it on television via the Relay satellite in his London home. Standing in for him, his son Randolph read his acceptance of the unique honor. "It is," read Randolph, "a remarkable commentary on our affairs that the former Prime Minister of a great sovereign state should thus be received as an honorary citizen of another. I say 'great sovereign state' with design and emphasis, for I reject the view that Britain and the Commonwealth should now be relegated to a tame and minor role in the world . . . In this century...
...Little. Noyes. who came to the Star in 1941 via St. Paul's and Yale, was practically born into the job. His great-grandfather and great-uncle were Star editors, and Grandfather Frank Noyes was president from 1909 to 1948. After starting out rewriting handouts and covering the police beat, he became a Star war correspondent in Italy and Southern France during World War II. Back home, he began climbing the executive ladder. For the last six years he served as executive editor...
...writer so knowledgeable about Communist literary politics that some have thought he might be Ilya Ehrenburg, the protean figure in Soviet literature who has survived all changes and has written well as revolutionary, emigre, Stalinist, and satirist. Whatever his name, and however his manuscripts are gotten out of Russia (via what the publishers call an intellectual underground), he writes fictional parables that illuminate the reality of Soviet life by the light of fantasy...