Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crisis of the franc, like most currency crises, was a thing of the mind. The economy of France is basically healthy: its balance of payments is sound; its unemployment rate is fairly low; productivity has been rising at a reasonable rate. The franc was in peril because enough of those holding it as currency were afraid it would...
...downs; it was authorized to fly to such secondary tourist centers as Rimini and Gerona. The government really plucked Eagle's feathers when it decided to ferry troops overseas aboard R.A.F. VC-10s instead of Eagle planes. Finally, when BOAC complained that Eagle was trying to turn a low-rate, special-tour authorization to the Caribbean into a regular run, the licensing board revoked Eagle's authorization to fly there. It thereby wiped away $5,000,000 in annual revenues for the airline. Hambros Bank Ltd., the prestigious London banking house, started to arrange a refinancing, but backed...
Firemen's Ball and Oratorio for Prague--Two first rate, if lightweight, Czech films which run amuck. In Milos (Loves of a Blonde) Forman's comedy, the dramatic action edges toward the consequential and finally becomes downright grisly, with no let-up in the constant low-key joking. In Jan Nemec's documentary, reality gets out of hand as the appearance of Russian tanks drastically alter what had been intended as a cheerful film about the liberalized Dubcek regime. At the EXETER, Exeter St. between Commonwealth & Newbury...
...quietly stigmatized my own wrist a while before to determine whether or not I was asking too much of Steve; when I told him I'd had a fine time, and profited immeasurbaly from the experience with no visible scars, Steve reluctantly agreed to the low-level self-mutilation demanded of him. So, Johnny Hale shooting hand-held high-angle from an Adams House A-Frame, me on a second camera shooting close-ups, and a neighbor incessantly on the verge of passing out or throwing up, holding the lights, surrounded Steve at One A.M. on an April morning...
...Department of Health, Education and Welfare will allot Title II moneys only for educational facilities, perhaps Harvard should, upon receiving a grant, make available from its endowment an equal amount: for use in the establishment of better school facilities for Boston ghetto dwellers; applied toward good low-cost housing in Cambridge; or perhaps committed to community rent-control projects...