Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prisoners. "We talk to them repeatedly, try to convince them they are being used as cat's-paws of imperialism." He followed the regular Viet Cong line by dismissing U.S. bombing raids in North Viet Nam as "desperation measures" that have "no effect on us." As to the ground war, he upped the usual Communist propaganda: "If the Americans want to fight us on equal terms, they'll need at least...
Nauru is no Bali Ha'i, but it suits its 2,700 inhabitants down to the ground. Since the ground is almost solid phosphate, the natives support themselves by selling it off at the rate of some 1,800,000 tons a year. The only cloud on the horizon is the fact that by 1995 the 5,263-acre island will be stripped of phosphate (used for fertilizer), leaving a big, barren pothole in the Pacific, 2,500 miles northeast of Sydney. Then Nauru's dark-skinned population will have to move to another, less tight little island...
Brazil's doughty President Humberto Castello Branco has scheduled gubernatorial elections for October of this year and a presidential election for October 1966. Last week he sent Congress his long-awaited bill establishing the ground rules for who can and who cannot run in the elections. It was, as expected, a tough bill...
...island of Mount Desert (pronounced dessert), Me., the accent has always been on sports as well as society. The grandeur has been somewhat subdued since Bar Harbor's big old mansions burned to the ground in the 1947 fire and were replaced by motels. But Northeast, Seal, and Southwest Harbor still are cluttered with the kind of people who do not mind how much money they spend as long as it does not show. Swimming is possible, but the water is so bone-chilling that only the hardy or the invulnerable young do much of it except in swimming pools...
...stroke after four holes, and decided to put a little extra on his fifth drive. With unerring accuracy, the ball described a half-circle and gonged Miss Alma Pearson of Milwaukee squarely on the head. Blood spurting from her scalp, she shut her eyes and sank slowly to the ground. My God, thought Nagle, I've killed her. "Don't let it get you," said Player. "It happens to all of us." Play on, ordered an official. Nagle swallowed hard, swung-and belted a grass cutter that caromed off another woman's ankle. Final score: Player...