Word: armes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dull and humdrum a campaign. For three weeks, Britons had barely suppressed yawns as the Conservatives and Laborites exchanged salvos of slogans. Searching for an issue, the Tories attacked Labor for not being eager enough to join the Common Market, for rising prices, for trade-union strong-arm methods, and for just about everything else untoward that has happened in the British Isles for the past 17 months. The Laborites shucked off the attacks, arguing that they had done their best, considering the mess that they had inherited after 13 years of "Tory drift and indecision...
...Gaulle's latest ultimatum coincided with a regular meeting in Paris of the NATO council, the political arm of the defense community, which De Gaulle has given leave to stay on in France in the hope of emphasizing a fine Gallic distinction: that France is withdrawing from NATO's military structure while remaining a member of the Atlantic Alliance. That is a bit of window dressing the U.S. is little disposed to allow De Gaulle. If the other NATO members will go along, Washington will likely try to move the NATO council out of France as well...
Fans at ringside screamed "Foul!, Foul!", but Referee Jack Silvers just shrugged. "Chuvalo is a body puncher," he explained later, "and stopping him from hitting low is like cutting off his arm." In the third round, the Canadian pinned Clay against the ropes, belted him a dozen times with right and left hooks-all below the belt. The judges applauded that display by awarding Chuvalo the round...
Whites Only? When Senator Robert Kennedy suggested in February that the Viet Cong's political arm, the National Liberation Front, should be included in a postwar government of South Viet Nam, it was Humphrey who retorted that any such concession would only dignify "banditry and murder." On the same issue, Humphrey argued last week: "The National Liberation Front is not national, and it liberates no one. The only honest word is that it's a front. It is a front...
...Levine was an innovator in the treatment of coronary thrombosis patients. He substituted arm-chair recuperation for bed rest. He was one of the early users of the mechanical--electro-cardiograph to study heart patients, but he impressed upon his students the value of simple bedside methods of examination. He believed a physician should use the cardiogram to supplement his stethoscope...