Word: lonelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...international oil world of giants, Belgium's Petrofina is not notable for size; it ranks 18th among all oil companies. The remarkable fact about Petrofina is that it has become a strapping middleweight with hardly more than a skeleton to work with. After World War II, its lone refinery was in ruins, its fleet reduced to one 9,500-ton tanker and its only oilfields nationalized by Communist Rumania. Today it presides over 60 main subsidiaries in 18 countries, 10,000 service stations in Europe alone and a tanker fleet that totals 1,000,000 tons. Last year...
...English love of tradition." With that, New York Philharmonic Pianist Paul Jacobs sounded the first six notes of the tone row with a crashing force that introduced to the U.S. the haunting Symphony No. 1 of Spanish-Exile Composer Roberto Gerhard. When the final note was sounded by a lone violin, it was clear that the premiere had been long overdue...
...Starr-might be weary, but they were part of a team, a disciplined professional team that plays with precision and remembers Coach Vince Lombardi's admonitions: "Wear them down. Punish them. Intimidate them." Only twice in the first half did the vaunted Giant offense penetrate Packer territory. The lone Giant touchdown was scored by the defensive team, on a blocked punt. Tittle complained about the cold: "My hands were numb, and the wind was so crazy I couldn't throw the long pass. The ball just broke...
...crowds surrounded the few booths selling candied apples or thin bits of herring on hard rolls. Missing was the pungent smell of broiling sausage, for an epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease has made meat, and especially beef, scarce in East Germany. Across the street from the carnival, a lone, scraggly Christmas tree shared its place with the huge model of a Russian rocket...
...they are it's because people make them that way. Take Lobo. Why, when he started out he was just the cutest little pup you ever saw, but along came a bounty hunter and shot his mother, and poor little Lobo was forced to become a lone wolf. Naturally, he killed a few cows now and then, and why not? Man had eliminated the buffalo, and Gro-Pup doesn't grow on trees. But his private life was exemplary. When he grew up he fell in love at first bite and became a thoroughly respectable meat-winner...