Word: ap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four years as librarian of the Potma Work Camp in Siberia, she had written a sheaf of poems-but she needed government permission to publish them. To keep her self alive, she hoped to return to her work as a translator of foreign poets, but that too required government ap proval. Since her small apartment on Moscow's Potapov Street had been turned over to strangers, she was even dependent on the state for new quarters. But the small problems of practical life were no more for Olga than they had been for Lara. She spent her first...
...invasion of Nice by a band of poules and maquereaux who had left their native Algeria in the exodus of French settlers when the country became independent. The invaders found a friend in Nice-Gangster Ange Bianchini, 48, who dabbles in the manufacture of pastis, the licorice-flavored apéritif, as well as in crime...
...sight of a horde of gypsy-moth larvae defoliating a forest is one of the most urgent arguments for the use of modern pesticides. The ugly, hairy, 2-in. caterpillars eat every leaf in their path; the rustle of their ill-smelling droppings sounds like falling rain. But public ap prehension about the possible dangers of chemical insect killers is now shielding the hungry worms from DDT and other long-lasting poisons. State and federal authorities are turning with some misgivings to less controversial means of protecting the forests...
...majority agreed that second-year AP students are considered members of their graduating class, and should be "juniors with respect to the social rules...
...also suggested that offering upper classmen's rules to potential AP students might present an "unhelpful temptation" to those students who had not decided whether to take advanced placement...