Word: ladened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disarray of his black adversaries must have delighted Ian Smith. Each day he had more reasons for joy: heavily laden tanker trucks have been roaring north along the highway from South Africa, bringing in some 40,000 gallons of gasoline daily, nearly one-third of Rhodesia's rationed needs. The petroleum is being sold to Rhodesia by independent South African oil companies, which have been emboldened by Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's decision not to abide by Britain's oil embargo. The trucks were seized by Smith from British Petroleum and Shell subsidiaries in Rhodesia, repainted grey...
...road shipments may soon be supplemented with more fuel from another source. At the port of Beira in Portuguese-ruled Mozambique, workmen are completing new oil storage tanks alongside a pipeline that runs 186 miles west to Rhodesia's largest refinery. And tramp tankers laden with gasoline are rumored to be Beira-bound...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). The Five Pennies. This movie biography of Jazz Musician Ernest Loring ("Red") Nichols is laden with heroics and sentimentality, but Danny Kaye and Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong have a ball and save the show...
...their final tuneup for next weekend's meeting with the Olympion-laden Yalies, Harvard's swimmers laced Columbia's apparently anesthetized Lions 60-35 Saturday afternoon at the IAB. Crimson coach Bill Brooks could have run up the score, but gave his second-line swimmers their last chance of the season to score instead...
Because Faulkner only rarely gave interviews about his work, never permitted journalists to pry into his private life, and refused to play the celebrity, the press made him something of a myth-laden enigma during his lifetime. The oddest myth of all is that Faulkner was a recluse in his classical Southern mansion in Oxford, Miss., and found company only in countless demijohns of bourbon while he wrenched out his primeval and difficult prose...