Word: feare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...U.N.R.'s name to the "Union of Democrats for the Fifth Republic" (De Gaulle had forbidden the use of his name "even in adjectival form" in any party title). As to the direction of the future, Pompidou and the other speakers left that vague, no doubt for fear of infringing on the prerogatives of the absent master of the Elysees. De Gaulle was, intoned Pompidou, much as if he were invoking the Holy Spirit, "here directing our policy with firmness and clairvoyance...
...kilowatt private nuclear-power plants, to be built at Brown's Ferry, Ala., is expected to produce electricity at a cost of only 31 mills per kilowatt-hour. The new competitiveness of the atom, says one Government scientist, has "really put the fear of God into the coal industry...
...Hunts." The Biafrans are adamantly against surrender because they fear that they will be massacred. The killing of many thousands of Ibo in Northern Nigeria last year led to the civil war, and the Northern-dominated army has given Biafrans little cause to believe that they can escape the same fate. Major General Yakubu Gowon, the head of the federal government, has tried to keep his men in line, but without much success. Ragtag recruits who "mop up" after Gowon's armies have joined local tribesmen brandishing machetes and cutlasses in "Ibo hunts." In the Midwest, they rounded...
...during the war or just after it could have jotted down from ordinary conversation and observation. It captures the slow fading of Austria's old escapist, professional charm before Nazi reality. It details the deportations, the mean spying for the Nazis by willing people of all classes, the fear of speaking openly, the people carted off for no known reason. Through the use of rather contrived plot coincidences, Author Gainham keeps her selected characters in view at all times, or at least until the SS and finally the Russians take care of them in their...
...change, admissions officials explain, is the result of better applicants. The median SAT score has increased from 560 to 654 over the ten-year period. Now only about 1000 applicants are rejected annually for fear they cannot handle the work...