Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three lock systems that carry them across the hump of the isthmus, and trade is expanding far beyond the canal's capacity to handle it. Over the last ten years, commercial traffic has climbed from 36 million tons annually to almost 65 million tons. Today, some ships lie to for 15 hours or more awaiting their turn. The biggest tankers and aircraft carriers cannot squeeze through at all. With the trend to bigger and bigger ships, the canal will be obsolete altogether by the year...
Spaak branded as a lie the charge that the rescuers had discriminated in favor of whites and reported that of the estimated 2,000 evacuated, more than 600 were Congolese and Indians-and evacuation of Congolese had been halted at Leopoldville's own request. The real danger to peace, said Spaak, lay not in the Congo action, but in the radical Africans' "scarcely dissimulated will to separate Africa from Europe and even perhaps to pit the black man against the white...
...this reason, the chances for a Harvard victory lie not with the usual headline makers, but with two juniors who have spent most of the season on the bench: John Scott and Bill Fegley...
Money & Flattery. Until an adequate biography of Frost is published-Editor Lawrance Thompson's is due next year-the best indication of where Frost's secret places may lie is offered in his letters. This collection begins with a puppy-love note, written in 1887, when he was twelve, and ends with dinner invitations from Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. It would not be fair to say that what lies between shows the shape of his life. There are only occasional hints, for instance, to suggest the depth and quality of his relationship with his wife Elinor, presumably because...
...Middle East does, in fact, account for a quarter of the world's petroleum output. But as the sheiks grab bigger and bigger slices of oil revenues, producers have been busy developing alternative resources closer to the oil-hungry European market. The big gest of these now lie in the Algerian and Libyan Sahara, where drilling rigs, tank farms and smoke-plumed refiner ies give a modern industrial look to the ancient face of the desert...