Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Voting for Freedom. Pearl Harbor surprised the U.S.; it awakened Australia. As the Japanese overran Singapore and invaded New Guinea,- and even bombed Darwin in Australia's own Northern Territory, Australians abruptly lost their sense of secure remoteness. Britain, fighting for its life, was in no position to help -and was reluctant to lose the battle-hardened Australian troops in the Middle East. "Without any inhibitions of any kind," wrote Prime Minister Curtin in January 1941, "I make it quite clear that Australia looks to America, free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship with...
...Borchgraved'Altena, chief curator of the Belgian Museum of Art and History: "Until the day that the technical specialists have at their disposal infallible methods, unanimously considered as such also outside their own circle, we wish that the best paintings in our museums no longer be used as guinea pigs...
...Touré's Guinea, which voted itself out of the French Community a year and a half ago, Israeli diamond interests formed a partnership with the government to market the output of Guinea's diamond mines...
...listened until he fixed the exact note hummed by a swarm of bees (treble A above middle C). Obliging friends and zookeepers plied him with odd creatures for dissection. Only with reluctance did he take time for his patients. "I must go and earn this damn'd guinea," he complained, "or I shall be sure to want it tomorrow...
...which it uses 6%, is no longer enough. Its search for additional sources of cheap power (and cheap raw materials) has also led it to Africa, where it joined an international consortium, including Olin-Mathieson, to build an aluminum plant in Cameroon, helped build an ore-processing plant in Guinea (with a housing development and community swimming pool), is planning still other plants in Guinea and the Republic of the Congo. Its Lacq plant will raise the company's aluminum capacity to 200,000 tons, about four times its 1949 capacity, but only half the company...