Word: withing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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We can send the volunteer armed forces overseas as our mercenary army and not really feel threatened. It is so much easier when these poor, unemployed, under-educated, minority "volunteers" fight for us. We can hire them to fight in our place, and as the ruling class and not the...
FISH EYES by Lois Ehlert (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $13.95). Children first learn arithmetic with their fingers. Then they look around for some new things to number. How about fish? Here, paper collages create a vast aquarium of imaginary underwater swimmers: one green, two jumping, three smiling, etc. The flipping, flashy...
What ever happened to the precious parchments? Georgia simply can't find its copy. North Carolina thinks a Yankee yegg grabbed its historic document during the Civil War when General William Tecumseh Sherman tramped through Raleigh. And some New Yorkers speculate that Governor George Clinton walked off with the state...
Who could have imagined, in so smugly prosperous a decade, that shantytowns would become tourist attractions? Until the mayor evicted them last summer, homeless people in San Francisco drew busloads of photo-snapping foreign tourists to their refugee camp in front of city hall. There, the visitors found a second...
Over the years no social issue has looked so easy and proved so hard to resolve. It looked easy because merely building houses is simpler than, say, curing a deadly disease or cleansing a polluted ocean or handing out hope to the poor. But it turned out to be a...