Word: linked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faced with the need of finding a better link between Oxford's shopping center and its spreading industrial suburbs to the east, Minister Sandys thrust aside 15 other plans and decided to drive a brand-new road through one of the most sacred academic groves on earth, the Christ Church Meadow...
AIRLINE DEAL between U.S. Government, Pan American World Airways and Afghanistan will turn underdeveloped nation into international air link. U.S. will lend Afghanistan some $14 million to revamp antiquated Afghan Aryana airline, buy new planes and build first-class field with 12,000-ft. runway at Kandahar near the Pakistan border. Pan American will supervise modernization and get option to buy 49% of Aryana's stock...
Perhaps the only weak link in almost nine centuries of tradition was 1789 when the Puseys of Pusey Manor found themselves without a male heir. Ever resourceful, they import the a nephew from France who, like a good Frenchman, adopted the family name and produced a long line of male Puseys, some of whom still live in England, some in France, and some--however remotely related--in Cambridge...
...self-scrutiny, the 20th century started out talking and worrying about its sex life with a nervous intensity that would have appalled earlier ages; it made prophets of Sigmund Freud, Havelock Ellis and that Baedeker of sexual abnormality, Richard von Krafft-Ebing. What remained was for someone to link the age's preoccupation with sex to its passion for statistics. That job was taken on, not surprisingly, by an American-Alfred Charles Kinsey of Bloomington, Ind., zoologist by training, who was determined to observe the sex behavior of the human animal with the scientific methods he had once brought...
...sanguinary struggle going on in Africa today between five million whites and 200 million Africans. We cannot do so for an obvious and important reason: we are in Africa. The peoples of Africa will continue to look to us, who guard their northern gate and who constitute their link with all the outside world...