Word: ap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...established in 1835 by Charles Havas. Used by the Germans for their own purposes, mostly propaganda, during World War II, the agency was forced to start from scratch as a government enterprise in 1944 under the name Agence France Presse. It played a slow, largely interpretive fourth flute to AP, UPI and Reuters for a decade...
...jungles of Africa. He soon finds that he is in charge of his own personal retinue of blacks. Equipped with better arms and much better military brains, he can go confidently into battle against an enemy that outnumbers him 20 to 1 -and that flees in terror at his ap proach as tribal drums beat the message "The white giants are coming...
...bling green trucks have been rolling toward a dead end. Jointly owned by 58 railroads, the sprawling company has been plagued by inefficiency and red tape. The main reason: its ties to railroads impose on it the same night marish maze of regulations that the Interstate Commerce Commission ap plies to REA's parents. Without special ICC permission, REA cannot haul goods from city to city by truck; instead it must put the goods on a train - no mat ter how bad the connection - and ar range pickup and delivery at the other end. Last week its railroad owners...
...coaches, classify each freshman under the following headings. The names and ratings given below are imaginary. ADAMS, AIKEN, ALLEN, ALT Carl John Peter David Secondary School type 5 2 3 5 (See below) Rank in class 15 4 3 23 Size of class 250 300 65 220 Advance standing -- AP -- -- Rank list (First term) 3 2 3 4 Predicted Rank List 32 26 29 35 SAT scores 4 2 3 3 Extracurricular--secondary 3 3 1 4 Athletic--secondary 2 4 3 1 Personal G S W A (See below) Scholarship award yes -- -- yes Father's college...
...regularly played the bugle at major Arlington Cemetery funerals, rushed out to get a haircut. Six members of Kennedy's Cabinet and White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, in a jet over the Pacific heading for a meeting in Japan, got the words of the shooting via an AP ticker. Some immediately began jotting down notes of their personal impressions-which triggered bitter anger in others. Salinger, stricken to "a semi-coma," quickly organized a poker game, played blindly and madly during the entire nine-hour flight back to Washington, wound up winning $800 and "was appalled...