Word: dies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harold Wilson calls it redeployment of the labor force. Most Britons refer to it as redundancy. Whatever its euphemism, Wilson's tough plan to force British industries to modernize or die is beginning to be felt. The Labor Ministry announced last week that unemployment had risen 28.5%-to 437,229-since the middle of September...
...past decade, four of the most widely praised new Metropolitan Opera productions-Mozart's Don Giovanni, Berg's Wozzeck, Strauss's Salome and Die Frau ohne Schatten-all had one element in common: Conductor Karl Böhm. It was hardly coincidence. Long recognized as one of the world's foremost maestros, Böhm helped lead the way in elevating his profession to its rightfully high place in opera. Now 72, he dates his career back to the days when many opera houses did not even bother to list the conductor's name...
...young man as pure as Liu would have been puzzled if someone had told him that the reason for Mao's burst of activity was the Chairman's approaching death. No one knows at what point Mao first began to worry about when he was going to die, but at that moment he apparently began to wonder if the Chinese Communist Revolution could survive without...
...Including power tools, die presses, diesel engines, certain metals and industrial chemicals-as well as corset stays and hog troughs, firemen's hats and bathtub stoppers, arsenic and lace, popcorn and canned hominy...
...Fourth. To Cincinnatians, every horrifying detail was already all too familiar. Mrs. Hochhausler, mother of nine, was the fourth middle-aged woman to die in similar fashion in the same seemingly safe suburban surroundings. Last Dec. 2, Mrs. Emogene D. Harringon, 56, wife of a University of Cincinnati professor, was strangled with a length of knotted plastic clothesline in the basement of her apartment building; she was raped. On April 3, Mrs. Lois Dant, 58, was bludgeoned, strangled with her own stocking, and raped in the living room of her first-floor apartment. On June 10, Mrs. Jeanette M. Messer...