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Word: maneuverer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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The man most responsible for bringing the U.S. into the Dominican civil war was forcibly packed off to exile last week-and most of the force came from the U.S. The hasty departure of General Elias Wessin y Wessin was intended to preserve and strengthen the precarious truce between loyalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: Exile of the General | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

Established in late 1963, the gunboat fleet is another maneuver of President Fernando Belaunde Terry, 52, in his search for weapons to fight Peru's own version of the war on poverty and disease. So far this year, Belaunde's Amazon fleet has called at 140 jungle settlements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru: Gunboat Diplomacy | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

Dropping Pressure. At 56 minutes after launch, Cooper began the mission's first important maneuver. By firing his aft thrusters at just the right moment for just the right length of time, he gave his craft a "kick in the apogee" and moved it into an even more precise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: SPACE The Fuel-Cell Flight | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

Please Acknowledge. During the next pass over the U.S., the astronauts were ordered to cut off one of the two fuel cells, in the hope that the maneuver might help the ailing system. The fourth revolution was even quieter than the third. The astronauts were instructed: "If you have had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: SPACE The Fuel-Cell Flight | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

Money Maneuvers. In a direct maneuver against the U.S., France last week tried to undercut Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler's call for an international summit meeting to reform the world's monetary system (TIME, July 16). Said French Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing: "The suggested procedure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economic Policy: Rise of Nationalism | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

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