Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many officials, the best hope of breaking the self-renewing jobs-housing-education cycle lies in the schools. By the time they reach sixth grade, Harlem's children are nearly two full years behind their classmates downtown. The dropout rate is 55%, and the children often as not wind up on the streets, for the unemployment rate among Negro teen-agers is 40%. These youths are the despair of Harlem, for they are, in a sense, living proof of its failure. "Look at those damned kids," snapped a Negro man as packs of teenagers ran wild last week. "They...
...SMOKE. "Under favorable wind conditions," says the colonel, "demonstrations can be inundated with white, nontoxic, nonstaining, obscuring smoke. The effect is both tactical and psychological. Vision is obscured, sense of direction is lost, and mob unity is destroyed. These advantages are coupled with a harmless throat irritation that induces coughing and causes the individuals affected to leave the area with little desire to return...
...deep-down waves are vertical fluctuations similar to surface waves, but instead of rolling across the sharp interface between wind and water, they travel in transitional zones between water layers of different density. No one knows what causes them. It may be the turbulence of bottom currents flow ing over ridges and valleys of the sea bed; there may be a connection with the rotation of the earth. Some of Dr. Pochapsky's buoys rose and fell 100 ft. twice a day, although the surface far above them moved very little with the tides...
...hand signals down pat). Cox makes the boat point higher and foot faster than any of her four rivals. In ten legs of windward work in the present series, she has gained a brisk total of 15 min. 24 sec. over her opponents; in 13 legs of off-the-wind sailing, her total gain has been 8 min. 59 sec., not quite so good but impressive enough...
Margaret Laurence is a 37-year-old Canadian whose publishers have taken the "unusual gamble" of bringing out three of her books on the same day. The Stone Angel, her second novel, is accompanied by a first collection of short stories, The Tomorrow-Tamer, and a travel book, New Wind in a Dry-Land. Although she does not live up to her publishers' extravagant billing, she demonstrates in The Stone Angel that she has a true novelist's gift for catching a character in mid-passion and life at full flood. The character is Hagar Shipley, who mixes...