Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soapbox from which to present their ban-the-bomb views. But painstakingly, Attorney General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller (nicknamed by detractors "Sir Reginald Bullying Manner"), stressed that the issue of the trial was not the political or moral beliefs of the defendants, but the fact that in trying to crash the gates of the Wethersfield base, they had conspired to violate Britain's Official Secrets Act. Backing him up, the bench brushed aside the defendants' attempts to question witnesses on ethical rather than on factual grounds. One such witness was U.S. Scientist Linus Pauling, an ardent...
...immediate goals of the new partnership generated no great debate: a $500 million crash school-building program to provide 200,000 classrooms for state schools; nationalization of the private power industry, one of Italy's less urgent economic necessities. Other proposals include tax reform, easier agricultural credit facilities, antitrust legislation...
...where the European allies met in 1818 to divide up the spoils after Napoleon's final defeat, that the Rothschilds elevated themselves from moneyed power to financial grandeur. Secretly manipulating European markets to the point of imminent crash, the Rothschilds managed to discredit rival moneylenders and emerged as bankers for all the huge reparations the victors extracted from defeated France. Thereafter their aura outshone the cunning it derived from...
...ranking. Protestant Sportswriter Grantland Rice supplied the "Four Horse men"* tag; the "Seven Mules" manned the line; the "Fighting Irish," liberally assisted by Poles, Germans, Italians and an occasional Jew, were a national institution. From 1918 until he died (holding a rosary-he had become converted) in an airplane crash in 1931, Rockne's Notre Dame tackled the nation's best football teams, won 105 games, tied five, lost twelve...
...script called Linear B. As scholars, but few laymen, know, Crete, not Greece, was the land of the myths-of Zeus and the Titans, Prometheus, Hyperion, Orpheus and Hercules. It was on Crete that Daedalus built the labyrinth and Icarus took off for history's first air crash. The vast Palace of Minos, whose foundations were laid around 5000 B.C., grew to a colossal structure whose apartments were equipped with bathrooms and flush toilets...