Word: eighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...succeed Joe as head of the Bonanno family began with an ambush in January 1966 outside the home of Joe's uncle in Brooklyn, and mob-style executions have accounted for at least seven since then. During the past four months, Tucson has echoed to the blasts of eight bombings or shootings outside the homes of Mafia members and acquaintances...
...river at that point," said a U.S. naval officer at Nha Be, "we'd be up to our neck. Estimates are that it would take anywhere from two to six months to reopen the channel. The U.S. command simply cannot afford to have that happen, since eight to ten large supply ships chug up the channel every...
...their well-documented opinion sells inadequate and inequitable protection to the accident victim (TIME Essay, Jan. 26). So far, they have won nothing but hostility and bitter opposition from most insurance companies. But their Basic Protection plan, drafted into a model bill, has been presented to legislatures in eight states...
...records. The 45-year-old Navy captain, a veteran of near-perfect Mercury and Gemini missions and the first pilot to make a space rendezvous, became the first man to a drink coffee and the first to develop a full-blown cold in space. "I've gone through eight or nine Kleenexes with some pretty good blows, he radioed, "and I've taken two aspirins." NASA doctors prescribed decongestant pills that they routinely store aboard Apollo spacecraft...
Squeezed Syllables. Sinfonia, a 28-minute work for full orchestra and eight "amplified" singers, is pure surrealism, voiced in sound. The words of its text are employed as much for their acoustic qualities as for their semantic meaning. The result is a kind of anti-opera in which verbal and musical ideas constantly dissolve into one another, yet are finally apotheosized into a grand, compelling musical sonorama...