Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other good ones during his monologue. De Gaulle, said Hope, is very upset about the British devaluation of the pound. "He wired Presient Johnson, telling him, 'Lower your dollar,' and Lyndon wired back, 'Up your francs.' De Gaulle also attacked Israel. He's furious because they're occupying his birthplace-Bethlehem...
They left behind nothing resembling a Trojan horse as a symbol of Greek cunning, but only anger and disappointment. After relying for seven years on the troops to ensure its dominance over the Turks, the Greek Cypriot majority was furious at Greece's military rulers for buckling under to Turkish demands for a withdrawal of the great bulk of them. Said Synagromos, a leading Greek Cypriot newspaper: "The battle for Cyprus has unfortunately been lost for good...
Last week it was finally time to pay the piper. Up for auction at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries went 151 items of Guest's choicest Chinese and Meissen porcelain and signed French 18th century furniture. In three hours of furious bidding, collectors, in what was a resounding tribute to Guest's connoisseur taste, bid a handsome $815,275. It was enough to see the Guests safely out of the woods for the moment. But in the tradition of the rich, they could not have appeared to care less. Even before the sale began, Winston had taken...
...functions elaborately to put skin on baloney." There is still plenty of machinery out there putting skin on baloney. But the most important fact about the screen in 1967 is that Hollywood has at long last become part of what the French film journal Cahiers du Cinema calls" the furious springtime of world cin ema," and is producing a new kind of movie...
...Kong government backed down by cutting the devaluation to a mere 5.7%. In Malaysia, which took the curious step of devaluing its old, but still circulating, sterling-backed currency though not its new gold-backed dollar, eight were killed and 137 hurt when a protest demonstration erupted into a furious battle between Chinese and Malays in Penang. The Government feared that, with Communists doing all they could to take advantage of the situation, the disturbances might spread across the country...