Word: outgrowth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crew bosses will also, by necessity, have to shorten the width of the boundaries--conceivably with massive landfill projects--to heighten the possibilities of collision, violence and general oar clashing. A natural outgrowth will be a finely-honed double-edged oar blade, sharp enough to cause at least a little bloodletting. "We need more donnybrooks, more bloodshed. We've got to get those hockey fans out on the banks," the profit hungry owners will be screaming...
...Kuumbas began as an outgrowth of an Afro-American Studies course, "The History of Black Music," taught by Hubert Walters, a lecturer and the group's first director. A combination of black students' interest in organized singing and Walters's interest in a vocal group as a workshop and laboratory for his class provided the impetus for the group's formation...
...tensely three times, then relaxed. It was the only instance in the 27 days of testimony that tough John Mitchell, 60, former U.S. Attorney General, betrayed any signs of nervousness. Along with former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, 66, Mitchell is charged with perjury, conspiracy and obstructing justice as an outgrowth of a secret $200,000 cash donation to President Nixon's re-election campaign from Financier Robert Vesco on April 10,1971. That gift was allegedly made in exchange for easing Vesco's way through a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into a $224 million mutual fund fraud...
...tunnel had turned out to be a 40-watt bulb? The editors at the New York Times Magazine had a thought. Anxious for a piece on "the sights, the sounds, the smells of Viet Nam-after the end," they chose Novelist James Jones. Viet Journal, an extensive outgrowth of the trip that produced the magazine article, is pitched perfectly for the mood of the times-a book about Viet Nam for a public that does not want to hear anything more about Viet...
...arrest and deportation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn should not surprise the world, as it is a logical outgrowth of the greatest assault ever mounted on the human spirit, which began under Lenin and did not cease with the death of Stalin. What should surprise us is the fact that while we are momentarily outraged by the injustice done to one great man, we forget or ignore the grinding tyranny under which Soviet citizens live every day. Defenders of Solzhenitsyn are properly legion, but who has defended Raiza Palathnic, Slyvia Zalmanson, Sinyavsky and Daniels, the four Jewish dissidents convicted last week...