Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longer than two months, after which they are either allowed to return to their villages or moved to permanent resettlement villages to take up a normal life again. In practice, however, they are often left in temporary camps for three years or more, living on a bare subsistence diet handed out by the government and spending their interminable idle hours staring glumly into space. Says Vo Van Seo, a 50-year-old ex-farmer who has spent the past four months at a "model" refugee camp near Saigon: "There is no fighting here, no bombs. But the life...
...Four years ago, South Korea's tough little retired army general Chung Hee Park scraped into the presidency with a bare 156,000-vote margin over former President (1960-62) and onetime Archaeologist Posun Yun, 69. Last week, Park showed just how far he and his country have come in those four years. In South Korea's most peaceful election in postwar years, more than 11 million out of 14 million eligible voters turned out to give Park and his reform-minded Democratic Republican Party a margin of more than 1,000,000 votes over...
...Center Court is quick-drying, comes in 15-ft.-wide strips that are taped together on the underside. In one day, it can be laid over an existing clay or asphalt court with only a layer of honeycomb wire in between for drainage. It can also be laid on bare, level ground over a preparatory layer of polystyrene foam...
...market with surf films which, aside from a few sight gags, were one long round of beach bunnies undulating to rock 'n' roll. Beach Party begat Muscle Beach Party, which begat Beach Blanket Bingo, which begat How to Stuff a Wild Bikini, and they were billed as BARE-AS-YOU-DARE exposés about WHAT HAPPENS WHEN 10,000 KIDS MEET ON 5,000 BEACH BLANKETS...
...stage was bare, the costumes were rehearsal-type togs in grey, white and black. "If you combine sumptuous sets and costumes with Mahler," explains MacMillan, "you get something like jam on jam." A tenor and a mezzo-soprano sang the vocal parts from opposite sides of the proscenium, while onstage dancers representing such allegorical figures as Youth, Beauty and Everyman traced a melange of MacMillan movements that seemed to draw equally on classical, modern and Chinese dance styles...