Word: zigzags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Point of View. In Milwaukee, on trial for drunken driving, Anton Schmalz, 62, admitted that he had been drinking Martinis "by the teacupful," but denied that he was drunk when arrested, explained that he had been forced to zigzag his car down the street "to dodge all the drunken drivers" coming at him from the opposite direction...
...first of two 46-ft.-high murals for U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters (opposite) is a prism through which he sees war as a curse on all mankind. Instead of germs and peace doves, Portinari shows the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, dashing headlong on a mad, zigzag course through humanity. Hyenas roam his shattered world and lines of sobbing mothers bend in prayer for their lost sons...
Bolivians last week celebrated the first anniversary of the bloody revolution that brought to power the leftist-nationalist government of President Victor Paz Estenssoro. For five hours, partisans paraded through La Paz's zigzag streets, brandish ing the guns they seized in last year's fighting, shouting "Viva el Presidente !" and "Down with Imperialism!" A big banner draped on the presidential balcony proclaimed: "Economic Independence." A miners' contingent marched past with three dogs labeled "The Tin Barons"- a slap at the three big tin firms nationalized during Paz Estenssoro's first year...
Gloomy Prediction. Physicists know that the motions of single molecules (e.g., in a gas) are unpredictable. They may move fast or slow and zigzag in any direction. But the impacts of billions of gas molecules against a restraining surface produce a steady push that obeys definite and rather simple laws. In the same manner, Darwin believes, the actions of individual humans are erratic and sometimes remarkable, but the behavior of large numbers of them over long periods of time is as predictable as the pressure of gas. All that is needed is to determine the basic, averaged-out properties...
...Stone Age men around 2500 B.C., by Late Bronze Age men 2,000 years afterwards, and by a settlement of early Christians. Perhaps a sudden rise in the water level wiped out the first settlement. Perhaps a change in local conditions made the island dwellings with their connecting zigzag causeways unneccessary as refuges...