Word: eighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unusual request was dispatched to Pope Paul seven weeks ago, and was made public by the senders because-perhaps understandably-it had not been answered by Rome. In their eight-page, 2,000-word letter, the priests charged that there was a "communications gap" between Lucey and his clerics, which had resulted in "an atmosphere of fear, alienation and dissatisfaction on the part of many priests." Citing a decree of the Second Vatican Council that urged bishops to discuss pastoral matters with their priests, the petitioners claimed that Lucey "has steadfastly refused even to acknowledge the existence...
...connects with a solid right to the head! This is Graziano the street fighter, the great lusty, gutsy brawler! Rocky bombs a right to the face, a right to the jaw, another right to the jaw, and Flowers is down! Down and it seems out . . . five ... six ... no movement . . . eight . . . nine . . . ten! Rocky is jumping up and down, his joy wild and unrestrained...
...from RMK-BRJ, the big U.S. construction combine, and other U.S. firms, agreeing in return to pay a royalty to Air Viet Nam, the understaffed government airline that has a nominal monopoly on Vietnamese commercial air travel. Having assembled a motley but eminently suitable short-haul fleet led by eight vintage C-47 transports, CAS expects to take in at least $9,000,000 this year and make its first annual profit...
...example, helps oil companies find locations for service stations by providing a block-by-block profile of any neighborhood in any U.S. city: how many cars are owned there, what makes and vintage, by men or women, of what age. Since Cadillacs use more gasoline than Falcons, and eight-cylinder engines more than six-cylinders, since women do not drive as much as men, it is possible to estimate down to the number of gallons how much premium gasoline a given service station should sell...
Albert Camus died eight years ago, at 46, in an auto crash-a pointless death that served to emphasize the pointless absurdities of life, which he so painfully tried to comprehend...