Word: harold
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Prime Minister Harold Wilson has twice led the Labor Party to victory at the polls with promises not to engage in the type of "stop-go" economic policies that he accused the Conservatives of using in their economic crises. Yet last week he held up the biggest stop sign of all. In an effort to bolster the sagging pound, Wilson called for a freeze on all wages, prices and dividends in Britain as well as new taxes to squeeze inflation out of the economy...
...nation that perhaps yearns most for victory is Britain. With the country's economy in a mess and Prime Minister Harold Wilson under fire, what Britons long for is to be supreme once more in something. "Please, please, England, win," cries a fan in a London newspaper cartoon, "if only to take my mind off the pound...
...facts were not in dispute when twelve defendants faced a nonjury trial before General Sessions Court Judge Harold H. Greene on various misdemeanor charges of violating Washington, D.C.'s obscenity ordinance. Among the twelve were four dancers accused of giving "an indecent exposition" after admittedly "baring their breasts" at the capital's Gayety Burlesk Theatre. Common as it was, the case produced a precedent that promised to baffle prosecutors all over the country simply because Judge Greene asked the prosecutor: What are "national standards" in sexual expression...
...exact design details, Miller said that the general idea was to construct the front end so that it would, in case of a head-on collision, crumple and be shortened by 24 in. Through an optimum setup of framing, wheels, fenders, hood, engine and other components, Ford Safety Engineer Harold Brilmyer aims to "work out a sequential arrangement so that everything collapses in a prearranged form." This may sound like small comfort, but it could extend the duration of the typical collision from 90 milliseconds to 125 milliseconds, cut impact forces by 20% to 30%, and thus reduce passenger injuries...
...individuality more forcefully expressed than in his B-Minor Clarinet Quintet, and it is refreshing to hear it played in a way that does not attempt to warp the long melodic lines. The Guarneri String Quartet, in the third concert of its Summer series at Sanders Theatre, with clarinetist Harold Wright, gave a reading of his quintet which was remarkable not only in its handling of phrasing, but in its precision of ensemble...