Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bomb did Moscow explode last week? There were few clues. In fact, Moscow was not even admitting that an explosion had occurred. It was Washington that detected the test, on its secret worldwide network of nuclear observation posts. From the White House came a terse statement of the bare known facts...
Despite his age and occasional bouts of ill health (liver and gall bladder), Ulbricht runs his country with undiminished authority, working as many as 18 hours a day. barking rapid-fire orders in his high-pitched voice. There is only a bare pretense of democracy. Technically, Ulbricht's S.E.D. rules not alone, but with four other parties (including a sham offshoot of West Germany's Christian Democratic Party) in a National Front whose united list of candidates is presented to voters at each election with no other choices. After the election rituals, the S.E.D. always gains control...
...appearing in cutaway coat and green polka-dot bow tie. There, too, Bobby announced the U.S. gift to Houphouet-Boigny of a beige, two-engined Aero Commander plane. (The Ivory Coast's President is scared of flying, but he appreciated the sentiment.) Bobby, Ethel and their entourage watched bare-breasted girls performing a "Dance of Joy" under eucalyptus trees, saw a three-hour parade that included 2,000 extra men drafted into the Ivory Coast army just for the occasion. At dinner, the guests sat on gold chairs, ate to the luxurious clatter of gold knives and forks, listened...
...changing the water daily. On the West Coast, green-thumbed weekend gardeners have been known to hoodwink their neighbors with lavish beds of plastic tulips. Tired of watching their natural flowers succumb to blight, drought or neighborhood dogs, many Detroiters have replaced them with artificial blooms to eliminate bare spots in their landscaping. One suburban Dallasite mixed a real and an imitation wisteria vine. "In the summer you can't tell one from the other," he says, "but it causes some questions in the winter when the artificial bush is still blooming...
...recorded music schedule for Matthews Hall Common Room this Saturday from 3-5 p.m. will be Moussorgsky's A Night on Bare Mountain and Khovanshhina (selections); Borodin's Quartet no. 2 in D major and In the Steppes of Central Asia; Rimsky-Korakov's Russina Easter Overture; Gliere's Red Poppy and Russian Sailors' Dance, Prokofiev's Symphony no. 6, Opus 111; and Pakhmutova's Concerto for trumpet in E flat minor...