Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...humans at a level above subsistence, more than 70 square miles of land should be turned over to agriculture every day. But one-fifth of the earth's surface is too cold to produce crops, one-fifth too arid, one-fifth too mountainous, and one-tenth is bare rock. In Cardiff, Wales last week, at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, some 2,000 of the world's leading experts confronted these facts with a surprising optimism. One major fact: world food production-contrary to popular belief-is increasing at a slightly...
...little 'psyching' of my own." Rocketing across the ring, Nieder got off a put of 64 ft. 6| in. to break O'Brien's Olympic record by 3 ft. 7! in. Puffing mightily, O'Brien finished second with 62 ft. 8| in., a bare 4 in. ahead of Arizona's 20-year-old Dallas Long. O'Brien tarried only long enough to give Nieder a handclasp and the thin sliver of a smile, then retreated to the stands where he admitted candidly: "School's out. Parry choked...
Despite this disdain for modern bureaucratic technique, Andorra's government rocked along smoothly enough until one day in December 1958, when somebody left $168,000-two-thirds of the entire Andorran treasury-lying in a cupboard drawer in the Casa de la Vail. Next day the cupboard was bare. Also missing was Ramon Riberaygua, 36, scion of a leading family and secretary of the Council of the Valleys, who on frequent visits to Spain had developed an un-Andorran taste for luxury. He kept a mistress in Barcelona and enjoyed paying big tips at the Hotel Ritz to have...
...right to operate. Aware of a lot of outcry at Soho's seamy skin mills, Home Secretary R. A. Butler has proposed a new licensing bill that may put the strippers out of business. Meanwhile, the clubs go on grossing nearly $6,000,000 a year. The bare market has never been so bullish...
...dream was only on the drawing board. The son of a Missouri Confederate Army officer, Lloyd moved to California at eleven when his family bought several thousand acres of ranch land in Ventura. One day his father, out riding, came across a grass fire, spurred his horse to the bare ground of a knoll for safety. When the fire reached the knoll, the ground suddenly burst into shooting flame. Lloyd leaped off his horse, breaking his leg as he jumped to safety over an embankment (the horse burned to death). The story made a lasting impression...