Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...watch a race on any day between Feb. 25, when the harness races started, to Dec. 7, when the thoroughbred season ends. Attendance at Yonkers Race way has averaged nearly 22,000 a night since Feb. 25, even though spectators sometimes had to build grandstand bonfires to keep warm. On a recent Saturday, 51,959 people bet $4,362,768 on the thoroughbreds at Aqueduct, contributed $500,000 toward balancing Governor Nelson Rockefeller's beleaguered budget...
...week, by contrast with the hunger marches of that era, most arrived by train or bus; some even came by plane. Said a Scottish miner: "We are not hungry men asking for food. We are angry men asking for self-respect." Getting into Politics. They pointed out that though warm weather has boosted employment in homebuilding and heavy construction, the actual total of unemployed (702,000) in Britain was still 250,000 higher than in the previous March, and was actually rising in the worst-hit northern areas. Another rally next day by some 5,000 teachers demanding a wage...
Frankly Interested. To peddle the placebo, the Administration plucked old State Department Hand Livingston Merchant from retirement. To his surprise, MLF met with a surprisingly warm reception. Though some allied statesmen hemmed that its cost would prevent them from meeting U.S. requests to strengthen conventional forces, West Germany, Italy and Belgium were frankly interested. Last month Merchant actually succeeded in extracting a commitment from West Germany to pay 40% of the entire cost of the project...
NONFICTION 1.Happiness Is a Warm Puppy, Schulz (1) 2.Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (1) 3. The Whole Truth and Nothing But, Hopper (5) 4.The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (9) 5. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson (4) 6. Final Verdict, St. Johns (3) 7.Silent Spring, Carson (8) 8. The Points of My Compass, White (6) 9. My Life in Court, Nizer (10) 10. The Fall of the Dynasties, Taylor...
...buyer-the man whose ear has been tuned by popular music but whose developing tastes lead him to folk music. Where the purer folk singers such as Joan Baez and Pete Seeger alienate some audiences with their austerity, the impure Christys, like the Kingston Trio, win them with the warm good cheer that makes everybody at least a vicarious minstrel...