Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Potbellied and ugly as the auld mug may be, it is the Holy Grail of yachting. Twenty-two attempts have been made to wrest the 100-guinea pitcher from the U.S. at a cost of untold millions of dollars. But the cup has remained of the firmly in the possession of the New York Yacht Club ever since it was won from Britain's Royal Yacht Squadron in 1851 under the eyes of an astonished Queen Victoria. Now, in an attempt to break the longest winning streak in modern sports history, a new challenger from Down Under named Australia...
...Canadian universities, research foundations, hospitals and prisons. At least 39 projects involved human subjects, often without their knowledge. No one knows where they are now or what effects they may have suffered. Said Turner: "It is abhorrent to me to think of using humans as guinea pigs. I assure you that the CIA is in no way engaged in either witting or unwitting testing of drugs today...
...cleared palm trees for an airstrip but left the tops suspended on wires. Beneath this camouflage, the field was completed before U.S. reconnaissance photos could detect the ruse. In 1941-42 the Japanese had island-hopping plans of their own. From their major base at Rabaul, just off New Guinea, they moved to Buka and Bougainville-the most northerly of the Solomons. From there, they established bases southward on other islands, including Guadalcanal...
...three hours. When he went on a cruise he took-along with his tailored dinner jackets and crates of his favorite champagne-a piano organ, a metronome, a phonograph and records, two dozen pencils and a quire of music paper. On one voyage, from New York to New Guinea to Rio, he even took along 'Writer Moss Hart. When their ship docked in New York 4½ months later, they presented their producers with a finished musical. Jubilee...
...influence across the middle of the continent. Now if they can hold on to Somalia and bring Ethiopia into their orbit, they will have hooked a suspender onto the belt. Meanwhile the other gallus is shaping up along the Atlantic coast of Africa, involving Zaire, the Congo, Benin and Guinea-Bissau...