Word: chips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United Nations soldiers, at the direction of Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, occupied the strategic Nicosia airport. The U.N. action denied the airport's runways to Greeks who had been using them to fly in reinforcements, and to Turks who sought control of the airport as a bargaining chip...
Getting Penny Pincher Jack Benny to kick $300,000 into a shaky oil scheme is no easy job. Enticing Financial Cognoscente George J.W. Goodman ("Adam Smith," author of The Money Game) to chip in $110,000 seemingly should be even harder. Or consider trying to gull $211,000 out of Walter Wriston, chairman of the First National City Bank...
...been returning to the spot in search, as it were, of their roots. Although most of the trees have disappeared over the years, there were enough limbs left to furnish the gavel for the 1972 G.O.P. National Convention. But Richard Nixon may be the last President to receive a chip off the old block. On a recent stormy evening, the mightiest remaining oak was struck by lightning. All that is left of its splendor is a jagged 15-ft.-high stump...
Economic sanctions also are finally beginning to chip at the country's prosperity. Plans by European and U.S. banks to make illegal loans of $60 million were dropped after London newspapers caught on to the story. Tourism is being hurt by the recent refusal of the U.S. and other governments to allow their airlines to do business with Air Rhodesia. Foreign reserves are already so tight that shortages have developed in everything from Scotch to washing-machine parts. Inevitably, the economic squeeze has cut the regime's ability to play one of its best trump cards-cash income...
...other singles competition Dutton defeated Harvard's number two player, John Ingard, 6-1, 6-3, and John Hayes overpowered Chip Baird, 6-3, 6-2, in the fourth singles match. Freshman John Horn, who won most of his fifth singles contests in straight sets during the year, lost to Eduardo Gentil...