Word: expend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expend a lot of effort promoting tourism, the 400 airline executives attending the International Air Transport Association's annual meeting in Cannes have proved to be poor tourists. Ignoring the pleasures of the Riviera, the IATA people have for two weeks been meeting morning, noon and night behind closed doors. Why the urgency? "This is the most important traffic conference in history," says IATA Director General Knut Hammarskjold, nephew of the U.N.'s late Dag. "It takes place at the beginning of the era of real mass international air travel...
...reason the Rockefeller delegates waited so long was a legal question. The New Hampshire Supreme Court cleared that up on February 9 when it ruled that a state committee for a write-in candidate could conduct a campaign and expend funds for the candidate without his consent...
...ability of our country's leaders to conduct America's affairs and the competence of our military professionals to direct the war effort. When an American ship is attacked on the high seas and we make no reply other than the inevitable mouthings of "diplomacy"; when we expend lives in an assault on the strategic Hill 881N and then return the prize to the enemy when we have won it, enabling him to continue to threaten our base; when we apologize to "neutral" Cambodia for intruding on its territory while battling an enemy which lives there-when...
...Cantata Singers are a good example of how a small, well-trained chorus can have fuller body and greater impact than one larger but less precisely controlled. Like all human performers, the group had its moments of weakness: sloppy ensemble, faulty intonation, a tendency (especially among the men) to expend force at the beginning of a phrase and then be unable to carry it through to the end. But Bach's voice writing, though beautiful, is quite impossible to perform, and the group has to be admired for its accomplishment. The performance was neither too fussily "authentic" nor embarrassingly emotive...
Harvard will be a big draw because of the large number of alumni in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region who have little opportunity to expend their school spirit. Alumni operations, for instance the annual state smoker, have been planned this year around the Crimson's appearance. The presence of goalie Bill Diercks and forward Chip Otness on the Harvard roster is another card: they both hail from Edina, a Twin Cities suburb, B.C. has always boasted a squad of Boston products until this year, when their big star is sophomore Tim Sheehy, not uncoincidentally from Minnesota...