Word: dis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...malady of the present system is symptomized by a deficiency in liquidity and a fundamental dis-equilibrium. In this system central banks use a mixture of gold and foreign exchange as reserve assets--meaning that they back a portion of their currency with dollars and pounds. Every central bank has the legal right to convert its dollars to pounds at the rate set by the U.S. Treasury: 35 dollars to the ounce. But every central bank knows that the U.S. Treasury just doesn't have enough gold to redeem every dollar in foreign hands. Therefore, every central bank is reluctant...
...nations at the Organization of African Unity meeting in September, the whole affair approached disaster. Although such notable Afro-Asian lands as Cuba and Cyprus sent representatives to Winneba, the conference was pointedly ignored by all of Nkrumah's neighbors, and most of Africa's moderate states dis trust him. There was, in fact, only one redeeming event: to mark the conference opening Nkrumah unveiled a 75-ft. monument of himself. The work of a Polish sculptress, it is the biggest, solidest Nkrumah in the world...
While most women in the U.S dis like the needle, some prefer it, and more do so in other countries. But for home use, Squibb hopes eventually to bring out a one-pill-a-month form...
...just relax--we're going to make America dis-integrate...
...stretching the legal scope of seamen's employment, the Supreme Court has constantly expanded the right to "maintenance and cure." That right theoretically ends with willful misconduct, such as the contraction of venereal dis ease, but the court has held that seamen are "in the service of the ship" even when falling-down drunk ashore. In one famous case, a tipsy sailor tumbled out of a dance-hall window in Naples and broke his leg. Another dived into a dry dock a mile away from his ship in Palermo and was permanently disabled. Both casualties sued their shipowners...