Word: skeletons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Again and again the skeleton of a theory is trundled out dressed as a theory. Page after page of factually empty diagrams, consisting of boxes and arrows, indicates the way the results, if they existed, would be organized. Inside the boxes are only labels of categories that have not been measured or understood. Great is the intellectual debt of these diagrams to medieval analyses of the faculties of the mind or the virtues...
...British protectorate of a century ago. The slaying of a buddy and the ensuing messy retaliatory action against the native population have turned Musgrave into a peace fanatic. He heads back for his buddy's home town in the north of England with the boy's crated skeleton, a Gatling gun, several rifles, and three fellow deserters...
During the past five years, some 15,000 backyard mechanics have bolt ed souped-up engines onto skeleton aluminum frames, stuck on a couple of tractor seats and suspended the entire Rube Goldberg contraptions on bloated airplane tires - sometimes two up front and four in back. Organized into a par cel of clubs, the enthusiasts range from young mothers to 70-year-old business men, from hard-nosed competitors to misty-eyed naturalists. They all have one thing in common - a child's impatience for the next rally or picnic...
...President's private sessions with Ky and Chief of State Thieu that put muscle on the skeleton of public rhetoric in Honolulu. Sitting in the overstuffed chairs of Johnson's living room in the Hotel Royal Hawaiian, the President urged acceptance by the Vietnamese of a U.S. blueprint for curbing the nation's runaway inflation-and got it. He urged reform in tax administration, citing as an example Argentina, which had increased its income by a third through collection reforms alone. "That is what we want to do," said Ky: develop new cadres of honest young...
...dining room-coffee house will be open only to regular members of the University, including those attending night classes. Between breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and from 7-10 p.m., it will operate with a skeleton staff serving a limited menu...