Word: howl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seen through foreign eyes, U.S. dollars are something like U.S. tourists or soldiers: foreigners may grumble when too many of them come over, but they really howl when the flow is cut back. Now that Washington has tightened up on the spending and lending of dollars abroad to close the U.S. payments gap, the cries are rising from Bern to Canberra. The U.S. has been a vast commercial bank to a capital-starved world, having pumped $25 billion abroad in the past decade, and other nations are reluctant to part with this rich source of money. Said London...
...however, the Bulldogs' night to howl. Yale, led by double winners Steve Clark and Roger Goettsche, who set an Eastern record of 54.2 in the 100-yard backstroke, garnered a fat 318 points to runner-up Army's 257. Harvard finished in ninth place with 76 points...
Baker Street puts Holmes in bogusly dangerous plights as he foils Professor Moriarty's plot to steal the Queen's Jubilee jewels, but it is never spoofy enough to raise a howl or scary enough to raise a hackle. The real danger is an American actress (Inga Swenson), who spurs Holmes's love disinterest. Actress Swenson is so cool that icicles wouldn't melt in her mouth, though words do-it is difficult to know whether she is reading her lines or learning them. Martin Gabel is sepulchrally menacing as Moriarty, but he has a walk...
West German businessmen, who lifted their East-West business well above $1 billion last year, grumble that they could have done even better if their government had allowed them to offer long-term credits as other Western Europeans have begun to do. German tycoons have raised such a howl that the Cabinet promises to re-examine its tough line later this month. And Britain, which opened the gates to easy credit last year by giving the Czechs up to twelve years to pay for two fertilizer plants, hailed another breakthrough last week. It won its first order to build ships...
...states have been picked, about 130 are projected for completion by next June. Governors can veto Job Corps installations in their states if they wish, but so far none have. Still, Shriver has had his problems with local folks. In Yorktown, Va., last September, residents set up a howl about plans for a corps camp near by because they feared an influx of "Negro hoodlums from Harlem." Shriver postponed plans for the Yorktown camp...