Word: ladened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...support from other countries. More worrisome was French Finance Minister Michel Debré's demand (supported by West Germany) that IMF's charter be revised to give the Common Market veto power over all future expansion of IMF reserves and the use of IMF loans by debt-laden countries. "If we don't get our way," threatened one European finance chief, "the Americans aren't going to get any monetary reform in the foreseeable future...
Flying through cloud-laden skies that signaled the approaching monsoons, Navy attack planes from the carriers Oriskany and Coral Sea rained bombs and missiles for the first time on the port of Cam Pha, which is only 46 miles northeast of Haiphong and serves as its auxiliary port. Under congressional pressure to hit North Viet Nam harder, President Johnson gave the go-ahead to bomb Cam Pha when no ships were at the piers, thus seeking to avoid hitting any Russian vessels. After Navy scouts found the right moment, the raiders demolished Cam Pha's wharves, badly damaged...
...screens in February 1964, when America got its first glimpse of them live on the Ed Sullivan Show. Only once did they show a serious lapse in taste: the cover of their 1966 album Yesterday and Today was a photograph of the four wearing butchers' smocks and laden with chunks of raw meat and the bodies of decapitated dolls. Reaction in the U.S. was so violent that Capitol Records pulled it off the market, explaining that it was a misguided attempt at "pop-art satire...
Died. Mohamed ben Laden, 53, Saudi Arabian construction king who could neither read nor write but whose computer-like memory for figures lifted him from laborer to Aramco construction boss in his mid-thirties, whereupon he quit to form his own company and with the late King Ibn Saud's patronage built $500 million worth of airfields, dams and highways throughout his nation; of injuries in the crash of his de Havilland DH-125 executive jet; near Khamis Mushait, Saudi Arabia...
...that is a dubious assumption. At least it is to the Airline Pilots Association, which grimly speculated last week on what would happen if some day a skydiver plummeting gaily down from 20,000 ft. should slam into the windshield, wing or tail assembly of a passenger-laden airliner...