Word: clashingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come; but by then, the government was so angry that it sent orders to Lundula to "take all necessary steps to restore order" in Stanleyville. It might be a bloody task, for Gizenga still had a nucleus of determined soldiers behind him; sure enough, at the very first clash, a battle royal resulted. Gizenga's force lost eight men, but it also killed six of Lundula's troops before the shooting ended. The way things looked, many weeks of bitter struggle lay ahead before the central government could put down Gizenga's rebels completely and add Eastern...
Following the varsity clash, Dave Abramson, captain of the Crimson freshmen, set a new University record in the 440-yard freestyle. His time of 4:36.6 knocked 1.6 seconds off the former record...
...written 25 books among them, are unabashed intellectuals in countries that respect scholars or ideologists. Outwardly, they are as dissimilar as their specialties. Trim (5 ft. 11¼ in., 155 Ibs.), athletic George Kennan is blunt, analytical, professional, and a deeply moral man who agonizes over the increasingly "sterile" clash of East and West. Towering (6 ft. 8 in.) Ken Galbraith is a vastly engaging, vastly self-assured pragmatist; given to heavily ironic wisecracks, he likes to be taken for an ogre, and in diplomacy, he claims, he has had to make himself "a lot more agreeable" than...
Varsity basketball coach Floyd Wilson was right last week when he said that the Crimson's narrow 72-64 triumph over weak Carnegie Tech was an unhealthy sign. In its first outing since the Tech clash, the varsity bowed to Dartmouth, 61 to 55, Saturday at Hanover...
...flew to New York last week to uphold India's case at the U.N., he ran true to form. Asked during a London stopover if Mahatma Gandhi would have approved of the Goan invasion, Menon snapped: "Well, he's not here, is he?" A possible clash between Menon and the U.S.'s Adlai Stevenson from the rostrum of the General Assembly was avoided when the two men met in private, thus depriving the Assembly of a spectacular verbal display...