Word: filles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...population has exploded from 5,000 to 150,000 in the past 20 years. New taxis clog the city's streets, and neon signs wink brightly all night; hi-fi shops blare out cha chas; Indian mopsters sip beer and lethal-looking, yellow-green "Inca Kolas" and fill up vacant walls with "Vivan los Beatles...
...Unseemly Fuss. Gross had talked about promising-sounding plans for decentralizing the school system, for curriculum changes, for integration without disruption: nothing came of them. He even failed to fill the key post of deputy superintendent in charge of personnel. During one time of crisis he was in Los Angeles-recuperating from pneumonia but well enough to make a speech; during another he was in Honolulu on vacation. He got into an unseemly public fuss with the board to get his salary raised from 540,000 to $45,000 a year...
...million powerhouse and reservoir, located in Cornwall and Highlands about 40 miles north of New York City, would be used to fill peak demands for power in the City and in Westchester County...
...does no good to patch streets if the patches are going to wash out in the next day's rain. Each week City workmen fill three-foot deep holes on Mass. Ave. near Littauer and each week the some holes reappear, a little deeper than before. The holes are filled with gravel held together by something sticky, but it obviously is not sticky enough. Bicyclists who try to avoid the gaps in the street run the risk of being struck...
...said, and the proper workings of American democracy require that they be able to provide an effective opposition. However, he continued, their landslide defeat in November--which he attributed to illogical thinking and the "kidnapping of the party by outside extremists" has made such a role presently difficult to fill...