Word: erring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accomplishments, the plenum fired Novotný as party leader, the country's most powerful post, leaving him only in the figurehead role of President. Into Novotný's place stepped the man who engineered the ouster. He is Alexander Dubček, 46, a Presidium member, lead er of the Slovak wing of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, and the first member of the country's 5,000,000 Slovak minority to hold the reins of power...
This song is called Alice's Restaurant, it's, er, about Alice and the restaurant but Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant; that's just the name of the song, and that's why I called the song Alice's Restaurant...
Civilians at Heart. Pleasant as this is, the R & R-er has another reason for not caring how long the flight takes: his allotted five days and nights do not begin until the plane touches down...
...cultural monuments apart from the great collection of Chinese art in the National Museum, has gained R & R status from the complaisance of its girls and the excellence of its food. Hong Kong is the shopper's paradise ("the world's biggest PX," as one R & R-er described it); it is thronged with purposeful G.I.s looking for camera and tape-recorder bargains offered by its freeport status, and perhaps an instant custom suit for $35 ordered and fitted within 48 hours. Hong Kong is also the most popular R & R center for the Seventh Fleet; the arrival...
...Utah and Arizona, however, much of the natural gas is held in relatively nonporous rock that prevents the flow of all but small quantities of gas into wells, making them uneconmical to drill and operate. Engineers have increased the flow of these wells by fracturing the surrounding rock-eit|er by forcing fluid under high pressure! into the well or by underground nitroglycerin explosions. But the resulting increased flow of gas through the fractures relatively short lived and in some leases is not worth the additional cost...