Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...affected some 600 ships that were either in or on their way to Britain's 40 major ports. Exports worth millions of dollars a day to the country's fragile economy piled up on idle piers, while thousands of tons of Guernsey tomatoes, grapes from Cyprus and Australian apples rotted in the ships' holds or were destroyed. British housewives, who vividly remember the three-week dock strike of 1970, stocked up on meat, fresh fruits and vegetables. Cattle feed-lot operators worried that Britain had only a two-week supply of animal feed. Angry dock leaders predicted...
...newspaperman in Australia, and later in Canada, Bolwell has covered every kind of athletic event from tandem cycling to surfboat racing, and has himself been an active amateur athlete most of his life. A former cricketer, track star and Australian football player, he now concentrates on his aggressive tennis game and on encouraging his ten-year-old son Farley-a prospect, says Bolwell, for the 1980 Olympic swimming team...
...revelation prompted a flurry of embarrassed denials from Australian Prime Minister William McMahon's government. Officials insisted that only one Communist student has been admitted to Australia since it quietly agreed to try Lee's novel "rehabilitation" program last year. But more than 1,000 young Singaporeans come to Australian campuses each year, and it is no secret that some of them have been Maoists or assorted other troublemakers. Unhappy Australian conservatives are not impressed by the fact that Singaporean firebrands have also been sent, with no disastrous effects, to Canada and New Zealand (although not to Britain...
...only two swimming events at Athens in 1896. Both were held in the open sea, amid chilling waves as high as 12 ft. Said Hajos, in one of the franker Olympic victory statements: "My will to live completely overcame my desire to win." This year an American, an Australian and an East German all have a chance to emerge from the magnificent Munich pool as the greatest star of the entire 1972 Games...
Consumer Crusader Ralph Nader arrived in Australia and told an airport press conference that he was here to check on, among other things, "the threatened extinction of kangaroos." This puzzled some Australians, since they kill a surplus of some 2,000,000 large kangaroos a year, and officials say none of these species is in any danger. Actually, Nader's basic project was a more familiar one: he was giving a series of lectures to raise money for the consumer cause, and in his talks he criticized Australian auto safety as five years behind U.S. standards. To this, Prime...