Word: area
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's various languages began when enough people in some area were able to agree that certain sounds meant roughly the same thing most of the time. It was never more magical than that. All of the complications of syntax and tense and the diagramming of sentences and the like, which have confused so many of us for so long, spring not from the origins of the language but from the efforts of scholars to figure out after the fact how it works...
...London, Nixon will spend virtually an entire day with Prime Minister Harold Wilson, probably with time out for tea with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. One particular area of concern to Wilson is U.S. cooperation in advancing Britain's nuclear technology. The British would like to fit multiple-target nuclear warheads to their Polaris missiles, as the U.S. has already done with some of its intercontinental missiles. Since the U.S. is increasingly sensitive to French charges of favoring Britain with nuclear know-how that it denies to others, the British regard the warhead question as a key indicator...
...shifted, the oil brought ecological disaster to bird and sea life. At Santa Barbara's three treatment centers, 1,400 sea-diving birds had been brought in. Only a third survived. Other shoreline birds, such as curlews, plovers and willets, which feed on sand creatures, had fled the area...
...present Berlin situation develops into a genuine crisis, it will perhaps reflect above all the realities of a divided Germany. The wartime Allies, of course, remain the final authorities in Berlin. But between statute and practice there is a large grey area in which the two Germanys have room for maneuver and can, up to a certain point, manipulate the other powers for their own domestic advantage...
William Minney, Buildings and Grounds College Area Superintendent, estimated the repair costs in the "Low thousands of dollars." He said that B&G will have to refinish the warped floors and repaint the stained ceilings and water-swollen walls...