Word: western
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...POLICE blocked off North Harvard Street from the Business School to Western Avenue. Two police paddy wagons stood ominously in front of some old buildings, across from the Harvard University Press. A crowd of people lined the far side of the street and some pressed around Mrs. Zalesky who had just been kicked out of her house. "Only in America," she said, "Only in America...
...princess contest at Western Connecticut State College, Joe "Tiny" Sacca, a 270-pound defensive lineman on the football team, received more votes than any of the five girls officially in the contest. The college administration refused to let him be princess, but Tiny, wearing an ankle-length pink gown, was crowned Fairy Godmother...
...example, Western economists tend to assume that the primary objective of poor countries is and should be the maximization of per capita income. This economic index has meaning only in the context of a market economy and implies an acceptance of the status quo income distribution. Egalitarian goals are introduced at best on an ad hoc basis, and the human costs of rapid economic growth-the fracture of community, for example-are seldom considered. A companion objective typically assumed for poor countries, that of "political development." aims at little more than convergence with western political system. Thus, the conventional confines...
...Western Massachusetts where the town is located (it is almost on the Massachusetts New York border) is very much different from the eastern part of the state. There is less congestion: fewer and smaller cities and towns. The Berkshire hills, winding northwestward across the section, are sharply-peaked and heavily forested-more majestic than their eastern counterparts. Farms dot the landscape, and, though it is Massachusetts, one firmly believes that cows outnumber humans...
...WESTERN BONANZA edited by Jod-hunter Ballard. 419 pages. Doubleday. $6.95. Slick fairy tales from everybody's Old West wholesomely packaged as "frontier folklore...