Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well as ideological grounds. Because the French developed Vietnam as a simple unit, economic progress in both North and South can only be hampered by division. With heaviest industrial concentration in the North, the South suffers from its loss of native manufactured goods. And the North without the rice basket of the South finds itself presently unable to meet its agricultural production needs...
...hung photographs of her dear, dead Albert. He goes so far as to describe a mysterious photostat sent to him years ago, and now unaccountably lost, purporting to be the pieced-together fragments of a love letter in the Queen's handwriting, fished from Brown's scrap basket. The basis of the bond between them, he speculates, may have been that Brown was a spiritualist medium through whom Victoria thought she was in touch with Albert...
...would have him and only him at her side indoors and out. They would go on long afternoon outings with the pony and trap-and a bottle of whisky in the boot. One of the Queen's Maids of Honor, meeting John Brown in the castle carrying a basket, once asked him whether the Queen was having her tea out that afternoon. "Weel, yus and nu," he muttered. "She dinna mooch like tay. We take out biscuits and sperruts...
...possibility is that Wilson might elevate Frank Martin, a 6 ft., 6 in. sophomore, and Vern Strand, 6 ft., 4 in., who won a letter last season, to the varsity from the JV's. Both are very strong, and the Crimson will need something to stop Koemmerlen underneath the basket...
...surely one of the world's greatest documents," lamented Dief, "and I wanted to have it badly. But the TV cameras were on us, and I felt it would be undignified for a representative of Canada -and a nonsmoker at that-to be televised rooting through a rubbish basket...