Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heady days of gunboat diplomacy and banana republics, U.S. companies like United Fruit and Jersey Standard often intervened in the internal politics of South American countries. Sometimes, to help promote their foreign interests, the companies could count on the diplomatic and military leverage of the U.S. Government. Those days are long past. But executives of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp., the largest U.S. conglomerate, apparently yearn to carry on in the not-so-grand old tradition. The testimony in two weeks of hearings by the Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, which showed how ITT and the Central Intelligence Agency...
...only when the mighty Flagstad fell over him at the conclusion of the Liebestod. But his dedication to his art was such that when he fractured his big toe during a performance of Die Walküre at the Met, he managed to hold his note for the full count and complete the show...
...Bergman's 1956 sex comedy Smiles of a Summer Night, imbued with a kind of mocha fantasy more typical of France's Jean Anouilh, Night Music is a masquelike affair, tailor-made to fit Sondheim's flair for depicting confused people experiencing ambivalent thoughts and feelings. Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm flaunts his amours openly in front of his wife, but at the barest hint that she may be following suit, he sputters...
Wilson said that the complicated point chart made the current standings "even more up in the air." Sports that are held on only one or two days are classified as special events and count 25 points for the victor. Other league sports are worth 100 points to the champion. "That's why it is hard to tell who is really ahead now," Wilson said...
...with Blakinger returning next year more determined than ever, Harvard can count on exciting wins at 118. Winning at 190 may be less predictable...