Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people, and more details are bound to come out in the future. Daniels, for one, who called the liaison "nothing shameful" and "the beautiful affair of a great lady and a gentleman," intimated that he is considering following up his coup with a full-length account of "one of the great love stories of American history...
...last week. In addition, the Communists have developed a new technique that cuts the warning time that U.S. pilots formerly had when a missile was on its way. But the main menace is still the lethal curtains of conventional antiaircraft fire thrown up from thousands of sites, and which account for 90% of American plane losses...
Sociologists are further disturbed by the FBI's "index crimes" - murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and auto theft, which are usually lumped together in determining whether U.S. crime is rising. The index is misleading, charges Professor Robison, because "less serious crimes account for approximately 85% of the total arrests." Critics of the statistics also question FBI indications that murder is rampant in the streets. In the fine print, the 1964 FBI report itself noted that 80% of U.S. murders are committed indoors by the victim's friends or relatives...
...figures showing that the country's reserves declined in July by only $70 million (to $3,206,000,000). The immediate reaction among financial experts was disbelief. In fact, most British financiers suspected that Britain had drawn as much as $420 million to $560 million from its emergency account with the Federal Reserve to cover up the true magnitude of July's loss...
Warnings to stay away and pleas for blood peppered Spelce's running account. Photographer-Reporter John Thawley abandoned his camera and raced out to help rescue wounded victims while bullets spattered around him. He was not hit. (The only newsman who was: A.P.'s Robert Heard, shot in the left shoulder.) Meanwhile the story was prompting calls to KTBC from as far away as Canada requesting brief radio reports. With incredible patience, station staffers provided 250 different such "line feeds." It never hindered their own coverage. Police identified the dead Whitman at 1:24; a KTBC reporter...