Word: brands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...personalized control over his restive land. Last month he eliminated his most dangerous rival, Old Revolutionary Comrade Mohammed Khider, by forcing him out as secretary-general of Algeria's ruling National Liberation Front. Ben Bella took over the party post himself. Also. Ben Bella is implanting his own brand of "Arab socialism." He has nationalized one-third of Algeria's farm land, most of it French-owned, and handed it to "management committees" of turbaned peasants. His regime has seized scores of cinemas, hotels and restaurants from Algerians who, in Ben Bella's words, "fattened themselves like...
...nowadays they even favor the capitalist Common Market. As a nation, Italy is less than a century old; first under the monarchy, then through the long night of Fascism, the country has had little time to accustom itself to democracy. Thus, to many Italians, Communism-or at least their brand of it-does not appear the fearful specter that it does in many other lands...
...July (last year the skiing lasted well into August). And it is not only the men's straw hats and the girls' flowered bonnets, the Bermuda shorts, lederhosen, sawed-off jeans and occasional bathing suits that mark the difference between warm-weather skiers and the blizzard brand...
...annual Harvard-to-Wellesley bicycle race, discontinued since 1957, will be revived on Saturday, May 18, Cyclists will assemble by 1 p.m. at Harvard Stadium for the start, and the victor will receive not only a brand new racing bike donated by the Bicycle Exchange, but also a kiss from the fairest maiden present...
...What mo' could you ask?") He studied classics and comparative philology at Manchester and Cambridge Universities and started his academic career as a classicist. (He still maintains that classics and mathematics provide the best education one can get.) In fact, what is most irresistible about his brand of linguistics is that it depends on a broad knowledge of individual languages, history, and literature despite its rigorous use of a statistics and mathematics. "The linguist must begin by knowing languages as well as knowing about languages," Whatmough says. "When he can handle at least some with confidence, he may proceed...