Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Guard. Early the next morning, President Kennedy signed a proclamation that federalized the guard. On his orders, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara simply retired the guardsmen to their armories. Wallace, shorn of his troops, gave up with a whimper. "I can't fight bayonets with my bare hands," he cried, ignoring the fact that there had not been a federal bayonet to be seen anywhere...
...alliance has been good for both -and for West Germany. Thanks in large part to its strong-willed Grafin, Die Zeit wields an influence out of all proportion to its size-a bare 200,000 subscribers-and in more than one sphere. The paper was one of the first to recognize postwar Germany's literary resurgence, among the first to encourage such gifted young novelists as Giinter Grass and Heinrich Boll...
...anguish in the depths of skyscraper streets Lifting eyes hawkhooded to the sun's eclipse. Sulphurous your light and livid the towers with heads that thunderbolt the sky The skyscrapers which defy the storms with muscles of steel and stone-glazed hide. But two weeks on the bare sidewalks of Manhattan At the end of the third week the fever seizes you with the pounce of a leopard...
...Italian Director Federico Fellini (aided by Marcello Mastroianni) lays bare his psyche in this richly visual, often perplexing film that is clearly autobiographical and monumentally abstract...
...Schoolmarm Abigail Fillmore was shocked to find not even a Bible in the place. Pausing only to put in the mansion's first bathtub, the new First Lady installed its first library. But in succeeding years, people kept pinching White House books. Herbert Hoover found the shelves bare. Booksellers chipped in to make up the loss, but Harry Truman scoffed that his own collection upstairs outnumbered the official one downstairs. The Kennedys, soon after arrival, resolved to put in "a working library for the present President and all the Presidents to come...