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Word: looms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether these events will loom large in history, or will fade along with all the previous false starts towards peace, may not be known for weeks to come. Not even negotiations on the main issues of the conflict are assured, let alone a successful outcome. On the other hand, said the President, "it could lead to another positive step and another positive step and another positive step that might end this terrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE WAR: Hopeful Half Steps | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...acre claim is carpeted with thick jungle fed by a 200-inch annual rainfall. As one engineer puts it: "Five hours without rain is a dry season." To make matters worse, the Orito field in Putumayo is 193 miles from the Pacific port of Tumaco, and in between loom the Andes mountains, requiring a pipeline rising to 11,450 ft. Because of the physical difficulties, development costs became prohibitive for Texaco alone, so the company formed a fifty-fifty partnership with Gulf, which supplied the necessary capital boost while Texaco handled the exploration. The project was christened "Operation Hannibal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil: Hannibal in the Andes | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...ship-line merger, Davies believes that it will "strengthen all the organizations involved just when rapid technological change in the maritime industry makes such strength essential." Some possible obstacles still loom. The Justice Department contends that the Maritime Commission lacked jurisdiction to approve the merger. Either Justice or rival ship lines could sue to block the deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shipping: A Chip at the Barnacles | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

...excitement. One hundred and thirty five thousand people flock to the Sheep's Meadow in Central Park to share an evening with Barbra Streisand. Around the Meadow rises a wall of trees, dark and mysterious. In the distance loom the colorfully lit buildings of the city...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: The Parks Fill Up With People As Heckscher, Hippies Add Life To New York's Vast Wilderness | 11/30/1967 | See Source »

...those of us who truly oppose the war, the innuendos, lies, distortions and violence of the Far Left loom only as an aid and comfort to the present politico-military regime in Washington. Richard M. Biederman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CURSE | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

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