Word: loads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prepare to leave their homes and move out to new settlements a safe number of antiseptic miles from Johannesburg's whites. The first batch of 150 families got marching orders at 6 p.m. one evening. "Greetings," said the order. "Kindly pack your belongings and be ready to load at 6 a.m." It came three days earlier than expected, and was accompanied by a ban on all public gatherings, political or religious, of twelve or more people. "There is reason to apprehend a feeling of hostility," explained the Minister of Justice. But Father Trevor Huddleston, the gentle Anglican missionary...
...entitled to free medical care under certain conditions. The U.S. Veterans Administration runs the world's biggest hospital system: 172 hospitals, 105 out-patient clinics (for dental, orthopedic and neuropsychiatric patients) and 17 "domiciliaries" (old soldiers' homes), with a total annual in-and out-patient load of 2,100,000. Estimated 1956 cost to the taxpayer: $770 million...
...Eisenhower last month ordered VA treatment for non-service-connected ailments ended for men entering the service after Feb. 1. Even so, some 21,300,000 veterans (plus 3,200,000 others still in the armed forces) stay eligible for the old free treatment; indeed, the VA hospital patient load is expected to increase 4% next year...
Donald A. Scott 2L, seeded first, and Ben Hockscher '57, second seed, first man on the varsity squad, load the field. Scott, who won the tournament last year, played number one on the Princeton team before coming to the Law School. Hockscher was runner-up in the '54 competition...
After several sessions the businessman tells of a dream: "I am sitting on a large wagon, laden with hay, which I am driving back to the barn, but the load of hay is so high that the lintel of the door into the barn knocks me on the head, so that I fall off my seat and I wake up terrified in the act of falling." For the Freudian, the barn is a symbol of the female genitalia; the dream represents a tendency to return to the womb, but because this has undertones of incestuous desire, it would be followed...