Word: eighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Children at Christmas Ages Eight to Twelve...
...however, Joy "hastened to veto any tendency toward such competition," as he wrote in his book, How Communists Negotiate, "thereby perhaps averting construction of the two tallest flagpoles on earth." The meetings have now turned into what one participant calls "the battle of the bladder." They often run for eight hours, and if any of the senior members leaves the table before the ses sion is formally closed, the other side interprets it as a deliberate walkout. The talks are also spiced with undiplomatic language. When U.S. Army Major General Richard Ciccolella was the senior United Nations member last year...
...welfare is threatening them with bankruptcy. In a little more than two years, New York City has added enough people to the rolls to constitute another Miami. Some 20,000 more are added each month, and by the end of next month, 1,000,000 people-one of every eight New Yorkers-will be on welfare. Other cities have shown similar increases. There is only one consolation. The huge expenditures are at long last forcing a re-examination of the system that Economist Milton Friedman aptly dubs "illfare...
...foreign press comes here and takes our pictures standing in food queues, and they publish them and say 'Look at this nation of beggars.' This is no life. I am proud to send my second son to replace the first, and I am already preparing my eight-year-old boy for the day when he can fight...
...place by outlasting Fernando Gonzalez in a gruelling five-game match. Peter Abrams defended his number six position by defeating challenger and number seven man Steve Whitman, 3-1. Finally, Ed Atwood extended his undefeated string of challenge matches by eliminating Bruce Wigand, 3-1, to earn his number eight ranking...