Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lamb Stew Years. The inter-American system that has produced the OAS was invented by Símon Bolivar, South America's George Washington. In 1826 hemisphere nations met with him in Panama to produce a treaty dealing with common defense, peaceful settlement of disputes and abolition of slave trading. There the idea rested until 1889, when U.S. Secretary of State James G. Elaine organized a trade-promoting "International Union of American Republics." In 1910 the organization got its present Spanish-colonial-style headquarters in Washington and a permanent secretariat, the Pan American Union. It then began a three...
Three-Way Hookup. That evening, accompanied by his Air Force aide and one Secret Service agent, Nixon flew to New York on Eastern Air Lines' Flight 510.* After dinner (lamb chops) at the Fifth Avenue apartment, Nixon plied Rockefeller with reasons why he ought to run for Vice President on the Nixon ticket. He described his plans for making the vice-presidency an even more important office than it came to be during the Eisenhower Administration...
...revert to the classic, stable stance, with the left foot in front, the right foot in back. To increase Patterson's ability to take a punch Florio strengthened his neck with special exercises that expanded his collar size from 16½ to 17. A diet of steak, lamb chops and beef stew boosted Patterson's weight by 8 Ibs. to a solid 190. Any sparring partner who knocked Patterson down with a right hand got a bonus of $100; any who staggered him got $50. No one collected...
...restoring" art masterpieces. They can take a brown, wrinkled, flaking canvas and turn it into a picture that looks like new. They can also turn Rembrandt's Night Watch into a Day Watch, expose an extra pair of ears on the Van Eyck brothers' Adoration of the Lamb, or transform Brueghel's Hunters in the Snow from a haunting evocation of winter dusk into a Grandma Moses-type picture of sparkling noontime cheer. The restorer's results are unquestionably dramatic, but is the drama comedy or tragedy...
...ever arose, Gikuyu should make a sacrifice and raise a hand toward Mount Kenya, and Ngai would help. Not far away, under a fig tree, Gikuyu found a beautiful woman, Moombi, to be mother of the Kikuyu race. Later, when their nine beautiful daughters needed husbands, Gikuyu sacrificed a lamb and a kid under a fig tree, smeared their blood on its bark, faced Mount Kenya, and saw his daughters' wishes come true...