Word: less
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Algerian rebels do not almost immediately destroy enough of the pipeline to make it inoperative, it will be an exercise of remarkable restraint on their part. For after five years of fighting, the French Army is in no position to protect a pipeline, nor even to undertake less imposing tasks of policing...
...complete yet available. On the whole, it makes rewarding reading. There is no getting away from the fact that Memoirs is chiefly a record of night errantry, of seductions conducted on a scale that will amaze today's grey-flannel philanderer. But the language is witty and infinitely less crude than that of almost any contemporary bestseller. And Casanova's powers of observation make his autobiography read like a fascinating picaresque novel. As Critic Edmund Wilson put it: "Even when he has slipped to the bottom, he keeps his faculties clear...
Message of a Spirit. Much of Pasternak is less complicated. He is often drawn to the simple joys of daily existence...
...Less than two minutes later, guard Bill Swinford picked off a Lion pass at midfield, and carrying the ball like a loaf of bread, sped to the Columbia 19. On the next play Bruce MacIntyre slammed through a gaping hole in the Lion defense and cut through to the goal line...
Macmillan is reported to have been pressing hard to rush Eisenhower and De Gaulle into a conference with Khrushchev at the earliest possible date. His pressure has surprised American officials who had thought he would attach less urgency to a summit meeting once the British elections were over...