Word: date
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agrees with most military men that the U.S. should have "either gone in there to win or cut and run years ago," senses the pessimism himself. "Last spring," he says, "I felt we had a year to win it, but now I think I ought to move that date ahead...
Financial Coup. On the West Bank, in the Gaza Strip and even on the Golan Heights, educators are preparing for September school reopening-except in the Sinai capital of El Arish, where youngsters will be let off until Oct. 1 to help with the date harvest...
Last week part of that version unexpectedly appeared. Pirated excerpts were printed in the newspaper France-Soir -two months ahead of the book's scheduled publication date. Malraux's publisher, Gallimard, duly registered its consternation at the leak, but the 3,500 words that were made public were only a teasing glimpse of what was to come...
...indivisible. If apartheid is deplored in South Africa, it cannot be applauded in the theories of Mr. Stokely Carmichael." Intellectuals should be properly informed before they take a stand. "The idea that a strong human intelligence can be brought to bear on any subject under the sun may date from the Renaissance, but there were then fewer subjects under the sun." Abstract pronouncements are useless in deciding between the "respective rectitude of Biafra and the Nigerian Federal government. It is only surprising that intellectuals still back countries or factions in countries as others back football teams or horses...
...been 500 years since an anonymous German artist finished off an exquisite engraving of the Madonna enthroned with eight angels, then added the date 1467 and the inscrutable initials E.S. To this day, nobody knows his identity. Some scholars believe he was Egidius Steclin, a 15th century goldsmith who worked in the Duke of Burgundy's court. Others insist that he was Erwin von Stege, onetime mintmaster to the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III. Or, as one archivist suggests, was he really Endres Silbernagel, an obscure Freiburg painter who died of the plague...