Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...significantly expanded its tactical role in the war Until now, the U.S. has had its hands full simply helping protect the coastal areas and the Mekong Delta where most of the people of South Viet Nam live. Not for nothing is the only adornment on the otherwise bare walls of U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge's office a population map. It shows plainly that the usual Viet Nam maps showing the areas of Viet Cong control are misleading, for their hegemony is in the least populated part of the country (see maps...
...lures of power," which, with his orator's gift for a telling phrase, he had likened publicly to those of Circe, Ulysses' sorceress, whose lures transformed men into pigs. "Do you think," he asked Constantine, rhetorically, "that if you can get 115 Deputies in Parliament [i.e., a bare majority], you can face the people and me?" His own siren song consisted of the familiar demand for national elections, which, by way of a compromise, he hinted he was willing to delay until Christmas. Elections are still an unacceptable alternative to the young King, whose very crown might well...
...renovations. It was not so important what, just so long as something was done. Old toilet bowls moved onto patios and sprouted flowers; louvered windows, coach lamps and marble fireplaces became standard. An enterprising young real estate man bought up some houses, ripped the plaster down to the bare brick, added odds and ends picked up at demolition sites and secondhand stores and resold his properties at profits handsome enough to make him a millionaire...
...good Moslem should, Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser last week made a pilgrimage to Mecca. Clad in white penitential clothing and with one arm and shoulder bare, Nasser entered the sacred Kaaba, housing the ancient Black Stone, and prayed in each of the enclosure's four corners...
Doing their bit to boost the tension were the latest opinion polls, which had something for everyone. One private survey made for the C.D.U. showed that Erhard's party lead had shrunk from 48% to 45%, a bare 2% ahead of the Social Democrats. A second study, made by an equally respected polling organization, showed they still had 47% of the vote, enough for the solid victory Ludwig Erhard hopes...