Word: cura
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afternoon last week a crew of Colombians began loading bales of unlabeled cargo into a four-engine DC-7 at Curaçao airport in the Dutch Antilles. That night the lumbering 22-year-old plane took off for what the crew said was a local test run to tune up its engines...
...than ever. The Pallisers, the 22-part PBS television series based on his political novels, has received almost universal praise from the critics, and has won a devoted, sometimes even fanatical, audience. In Manhattan, liquor store dealers have been startled by a sudden demand for a liqueur called orange Curaçao. The reason can now be told: it was the favorite drink of Trollope's crusty old Duke of Omnium. Oxford University Press, which publishes the six Palliser volumes, quickly cleaned out its stock after the TV program began in late January; it ordered a second printing...
This no-nonsense "doctor" is the brainchild of Dr. Norman Jensen, director of adult medicine at Madison's University of Wisconsin Hospitals, and his colleague, Larry Van Cura, a computer specialist. What distinguishes it from other diagnostic computers is that it allows a direct dialogue between patient and machine and, math whiz that it is, delivers an almost instant assessment of health risks. Jensen also sees the inexpensive computerized checkup ($10) as an alternative to costly annual physicals. For those under 40 who show no signs of ill health, an increasing number of physicians are no longer recommending such...
First indoctrination completed, we dock at Curaçao for a run ashore. Suddenly everyone we see seems to be smoking, and we plunge into the shops-or the clear sea-to escape. The weakest-willed flee back to the ship. This is to be the pattern for the next several days. Aruba proves particularly dangerous: the excitement of its busy casinos traps winners and losers alike into forgetting their vows...
...banning public meetings that stir up racial hatred and proposed a similar law for statements by members of Parliament. It also called off a conference of U.S. and West Indian Black Power leaders early in July. After radical workers and students sacked Willemstad, capital of the island of Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles, last year, one of their leaders, Stanley Brown, explained: "Holland has a hell of a debt to Curaçao -something similar to the Germans' debt to the Jews. They didn't kill us, but they stole our culture...