Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brush off the confetti as he pulled up at the city hall for the Marseillaise and a word from Mayor George Christopher. Returning from a chilly tour of San Francisco Bay aboard a Coast Guard gunboat, he was greeted by nine-year-old Brownie Scout Dara Woods, her bare knees knocking in the cold. Gallantly, the general bent like a great, gawky crane to accept a bouquet of flowers. "Merci,'' he said. "Thank you." And hours later, as he finished a speech at the Civic Auditorium, the visitor was still stirred with emotion. He spread his arms...
...toppling wall buried 70 girl students, killing 58. The dome of the bazaar collapsed like a circus tent after roustabouts removed the center poles. For a moment the stunned city was deathly still. Then the moans of the dying mingled with the wails of the survivors, who clawed with bare hands at the rubble, frantically searching for missing parents or children...
...leaders complained about his attack on the official doctrine that an ever-increasing population is essential to China's strength, Ma Yinchu roared: "Even though I am nearly 80 years old, and know that an individual cannot resist the multitude, I am ready to go to battle with bare hands and perish rather than yield...
Pagan Frieze. It is the story of Lampe-dusa's own great-grandfather, Giulio, set at the time of Garibaldi's landing in Sicily (1860), and the plot of The Leopard is as bare as a sun-seared Sicilian hillside. The hero-known in the novel as Don Fabrizio, prince of the House of Salina-simply lives out the death of his class, the feudal landed gentry. The only action is inaction. But to mistake the story for the subject is to assume that a pearl is about grit. Amateur Novelist Lampedusa's real interest and achievement...
...Christian Democrats' own 272 votes, Fanfani planned to add the 17 controlled by Social Democrat Leader Giuseppe Saragat, six Republican seats and three independent ones, for a bare one-vote majority. Since so slim a margin would offer his government no protection against secret desertions by members of his own party in parliamentary voting, Fanfani planned to rely on Pietro Nenni's Socialists to agree at least to abstain from voting against a Fanfani government. While some Italians saw this as the long-discussed "opening to the left," which would take the Christian Democrats down the road...