Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...network of busy truck roads, the Communists still use elephants to haul their supplies. Not long ago, an American pilot sighted an elephant carrying rockets. His strafing run killed the animal and set off a series of secondary explosions. There was a slight dilemma on his return to base: should he put the event down as an enemy killed in action or as an enemy vehicle destroyed...
...1930s, he used to pick up $5 a game, playing first base for the Watkins, Minn., Independents in the Great Soo League. There, Eugene McCarthy was known as a fancy-Dan fielder and batted close to .350. Since he joined the Senators, he has often starred for the Donkeys in the annual game between congressional Democrats and Republicans, and he still gets wound up for hours discussing baseball and his all-time favorite performers, among them Gil Hodges and Ted Williams. Friends report that McCarthy is not so much interested in the outcome of a contest as in the style...
Both executives were a bit vague when it came to discussing what their multimillion-dollar handshake would produce. McColough noted that the merger "would provide a much broader base than we now enjoy." Said Lundell: "The merger would greatly enhance the future of C.I.T.'s growth program." Whatever its purpose, the sheer size of the deal is sure to interest the Federal Government, particularly since the Federal Trade Commission announced last July that it would look into the huge economic concentration brought about by conglomerate mergers...
Harvard officials, representatives of the Kennedy Library, the City government, and various planning agencies have all agreed that the site, now owned by the Baird Atomic Co., should be developed for commercial use to add to Cambridge's tax base. But some observers, particularly Kennedy Library Architect I. M. Pei, understandably want to assure that buildings bordering on the Library are aesthetically appropriate as well as a boon to City taxpayers...
...everyone is against the regime. Student anti-communists, young and ambitious army officers, and tradition minded villagers terrified of the on-slaught of urbanization form the base of the regime's supporters. Greeks are very certain that this is not the regular kind of conservative reaction to the danger of a Communist take-over. They point out that the Rightist party of Greece does not support the regime, although certainly some of their support comes from individuals of that party. Even those supporters grant that the junta has been extraordinarily clumsy, but they think the colonels had the right idea...