Word: length
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just past 3 a.m. last week when the deafening roar of high explosive split the quiet moonlit night. The blast slammed the Greek tanker Eleftheroupolis against its pier near the Nha Be tank farm southeast of Saigon, Despite the constant allied watch on shipping along the entire 30-mile length of the Long Tau channel, which links Saigon and the sea, a Viet Cong frogman had attached a 100-lb. charge to the vessel's anchor chain. Damage was minor: one compartment was ruptured, but the jet fuel inside did not ignite...
...addition, employees get liberal fringe benefits, including a 20 per cent discount on merchandise for the first year and, thereafter, at cost, group and hospital insurance, sick pay, and paid vacation. As in most retail stores, the employee turnover is high (ten per cent per month) and the average length of employment short (four months), but for the more stable work force the benefits are at least competitive with other retail stores, and better than many...
...synthehippie might make a passable reduction, were it not for the ignorance of its creators (many moviehippies expound at length on the differences between acid and LSD), and the aura of creeping Barry Goldwaterism expressed in (as far as I can detect) the first pejorative use of the word "love." When a moviehippie says he just wants to wander around loving everything in sight, we can almost always detect the tone of a lurking scriptwriter at some pains to imply that the sonofabitch ought to get off the streets and earn a decent living. Moviehippies are often surprisingly well...
Five plays later, Domres overthrew Wasevich and Conway made a fantastic interception. Sprawled full length on the field, the senior bumped the ball into the air off his forearm and then pulled it in only a few inches from the ground...
...three years running-1962, 1963, 1964-the tall, shapely mezzo sang powerful Carmens in Spoleto, Moscow and at the New York City Opera. But it was the Met that Verrett was aiming for. She declined Rudolf Bing's offer to sing several minor Wagner and Verdi roles. At length, Bing came through with the role she craved...