Word: dise
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picture is not all bleak. Some employers have sought to fight prejudice by setting an unofficial quota so the number of immigrants is kept below a particular level in any one department. After a difficult introductory period many employers have found that the hostility dise down...
...height of the rocket's trajectory, the nose cone should have opened, the spectrometer glided out on a trunnion and spent five minutes scanning the dise of the sun. The spectrometer then should have folded back into the nose cone. Hopefully, the instrument will be recovered when the cone lands in New Mexico...
...antisocial." Advice from Beyond. After winning his Ph.D., David sought education of a different kind, signed on as a dollar-a-year political "intern" on the staff of New York's fiery reform mayor, Fiorello La Guardia. The main accomplishment of his 18-month stint: suggesting that merchan dise display cases be set up at La Guardia Airport to increase city revenues, and using his formidable name to convince businessmen that they should lease space...
...cars that carried the victims to the camps, perfected the methods of slaughter-finally settling on "Zyklon B" as the gas that was fastest and cheapest. Jews indelibly remember Eichmann's cynical offer in 1944 to trade 1,000.000 Jews for 10,000 trucks. "Blood for merchandise, merchan dise for blood," he told a Jewish leader. "You can make your choice from Hungary, Poland, Austria, from Auschwitz or Theresienstadt, from wherever you like. Potent males? Fertile women? Old people? Children?" At the Nuremberg trials, a witness reported Eichmann's defiant boast: "I will leap into my grave laughing...