Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are also environmental costs in boosting food production. While nutrient input is essential for obtaining greater yields, fertilizers drain off from farm fields and into water supplies. There they cause "blooms" of aquatic plants that turn lakes into swamps, destroying fresh-water supplies. Similarly, clearing and planting virgin areas ruins wildlife habitats and upsets the delicate balance of life...
CONSIDER ONE CASE in the book typical of the rapes-by-acquaintance stories they describe. An 18-year-old woman, a virgin, signs out of her dorm for the night. Her date from another college has arranged for her to spend the night with the girlfriend of one of his fraternity brothers. The party breaks up late; the girlfriend is mysteriously unavailable. He offers to pay for a motel room for her. She, having no money, agrees, since the dorm has been locked up for hours. He walks her to the room and comes in. She asks him to leave...
...Interest in painting his sculpture began in the Virgin Islands when he made his very first three-dimensional work in 1932. It was the head of a Negro, which David had carved from a chunk of white coral and then painted a dark purplish brown. I think he would be furious if he knew that alterations had been made that distorted his original concept...
...will be assimilated into the national, Western-like culture the cities represent. The children of the women who speak Indian tongues in the markets of LaPaz are learning Spanish and the metric system. The Mexican workers who come to Mexico City to pray to an icon of the Virgin of Guadalupe will soon take the eucharist and mouth their pleas to a transubstantiated God. The tiny craftsmen of Quito, Ecuador, who sell shoes, hats and cabinets in front rooms of their houses will soon be replaced by mass-producing factories...
...become fashionable to have a homosexual or bisexual experience. On the other hand, at some campuses there has been a noticeable reaction against the new permissiveness. For example, one women's dormitory at the University of Michigan used to be sniggeringly called "Prudes' Palace" or the "Virgin Vault" because men were banned above the first floor during weekdays. This year, however, it has a waiting list of more than 50 coeds...