Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...variety. It has been hailed by scholars, businessmen, diplomats, technicians and others who work in the two languages. Lexicographer Gullberg subscribes to and carefully reads 40 English-language publications, including the London and New York Times, the Financial Times, the Economist, the Guardian, TIME and LIFE. His first and main source of new English words and terms is TIME. When our Stockholm correspondent asked him why, he in turn asked: "Where else can I get a publication that gives such coverage to every branch of human activity...
...wire festooned with Red bodies. The V.C. timed their attacks to coincide with lulls in U.S. air support, but they reckoned without the 5-in. guns of the U.S. Navy. Into range at flank speed loped the U.S. destroyer O'Brien, spitting rapid-fire salvos from its six main battery guns at 1½ tons a minute. "I've got Veecee hanging by their toes from my barbed wire," radioed a spotter. "I'm gonna put down the radio and grab my rifle." No need. By noon the Reds had faded away-leaving 175 dead behind them...
...main reason for the addition, he explained, is the new emphasis in music studies on individual listening. "Still, there will not be as many new listening booths as I would like," he complained. The library's collection of books, scores, and recordings has doubled since 1956. when the library wing was built...
...home in Rhodesia is on a farm, eight miles from Salisbury. Like most other farms in Rhodesia, tobacco is our main crop; maize, groundnuts, and beans are secondary subsistence crops. The farms in Rhodesia are not only owned by Europeans but are also owned by Europeans but are also owned by Africans. According to the Central Statistical Office survey in July 1962, African farmers cultivated two and one half times as much land as did European farmers. By contrast in Kenya the Africans had to wait until there was an African government in power for farms to be handed over...
...five years. By 1975, the country's gross national product is expected to reach $30 billion, almost twice its current $16.6 billion. As one of Europe's potential-growth speedsters, Spain has naturally attracted sizable inflows of foreign capital, which the government has welcomed. But inevitably the main job of financing Spanish business expansion must come from within the country...