Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They seemed to be afraid that with the innovative curriculum, they are kind of being used as guinea pigs by the faculty," he said. "They feel that anything new is not as good as the 'regular thing.' We hope that if these courses are good enough the students will want to take them...
...Farner both emphasized that the students are not at all being used as guinea pigs. In fact, Farner said, "we have a real need to try new things here, but I don't want to let our students down in any way. If a student wants to take business administration or English or philosophy courses, he will be able...
...complete round trip from Lisbon to Biafra takes 30 hours, so two pilots and two flight engineers sleeping in shifts are on every flight, he says. The planes generally fly straight from Lisbon to Biafra, unload and then fly to Bisau. Portuguese Guinea, or St. Isabel or St. Tome, Fernando Po (also Portuguese). Once there, they sometimes fly a short triangle, carrying only food, between Biafra, Bisau, and Fernando Po before returning to Lisbon...
...installations; if it does not, the troopers can look forward to some tasty pate. During the two months the geese have been on duty, not a Communist has made a try for the bridge. But they may soon be obsolete. The U.S. command is thinking of replacing them with guinea fowls, considered to be even more cantankerous and noisy about their territorial imperatives...
...regime are regularly put into preventive detention for up to six months. The P.I.D.E. jailed Mario Scares, a lawyer and leading critic of the Salazar regime, a total of 13 times before exiling him without trial last March to the tiny island of Sao Tome in the Gulf of Guinea. The number of legal emigrants and clandestinos voting against Salazar with their feet rose dramatically from 34,000 in 1961 to some...