Word: eve
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until last week, Powell's most flagrant public sin was his defiance of the New York courts that have sentenced him to a 16-month jail term for contempt (he has consistently refused to pay a defamation judgment won by a Harlem Negro widow). Then, on the eve of the new session, the Negro Congressman was hit from a new direction. Reporting on a three-month investigation of the financial affairs of the House Education and Labor Committee, of which Powell is chairman, House probers concluded that...
...first agree that Rosner and his 40 barracks buddies have it rough and may indeed go to Viet Nam. However, does his being in the Army mean that there should be no parties, no merrymaking, no New Year's Eve in the U.S. until Rosner returns? So Truman Capote had a blast. So what? Must we read the trite analogies about the Roman Empire and the U.S. every time somebody has a toot...
...three-nation International Control Commission whose job it is to supervise the 1954 agreement that divided Viet Nam. He arrived in North Viet Nam two days before Christmas, filed the first of his stories, via regular commercial cable to the Times's Paris bureau, on Christmas Eve...
...Coast Guard boats maintained the watch on coastal and river traffic; pilots of jets, observation planes and helicopters flew reconnaissance missions north and south of the DMZ separating the two Viet Nams. The Allies counted 122 shooting contacts with the enemy. Most of them were minor, but on Christmas Eve, one bout between Marines in Quang Nam and the Viet Cong lasted for several hours...
...Christmas-New Year's holiday is the big week for skiing, and right across the nation, resorts were strained to capacity - including those in Vermont, where a Christmas Eve storm dumped two feet of snow on slopes that had been brown. For New England skiers and resort owners, the last-minute reprieve was nothing short of miraculous...