Word: melle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reaching the country, the President went pell-mell over the fields, following neither road nor path, always on, on, straight ahead! I was much winded, but I would not give in, nor ask him to slow up, because I had the honor of la belle France in my heart. At last we came to the bank of a stream, rather wide and too deep to be forded. I sighed relief, because I thought that now we had reached our goal and would rest a moment and catch our breath before turning homeward...
...rushing pell-mell to U.S. campuses, African students often find a bitter reality of poverty, loneliness and academic failure. One cure for this mess, which wins the U.S. no friends in Africa, is a common-sense group called the African Scholarship Program of American Universities. Developed three years ago by David D. Henry, former admissions dean of Harvard, A.S.P.A.U. now links 24 African countries with 213 U.S. campuses. By working with the African branch offices of the African-American Institute, it seeks to solve the key problem: selecting the right students for the right campuses before they...
Sophomore guard George Humann, who played brilliantly all night for the Eagles, scored on a fast break after a jump shot by Leo Scully had failed. Then B.C. repeatedly moved over, under, around, and through the pell-mell Crimson defense, scoring six times in the next three minutes, all on shots from less than five feet...
Starting out as just one of the South's many shoemakers, Genesco has grown pell-mell since 1938 by buying up 46 companies. Today it operates 80 factories in 17 states, manufactures 51 brands of shoes from Flagg Bros, to Mannequin, makes Griffon men's clothes and Formfit girdles, and sells its wares through 1,500 Genesco-owned retail stores, including the Bonwit Teller chain. From its sprawling empire, Genesco last year drew profits of $8,900,000 on sales of $443 million...
Shaky Foundations. The decline in profit margins is especially painful because West Germany is woefully short of money for capital investment. In the booming postwar years, German companies financed most of their pell-mell expansion out of retained earnings. This year, with earnings leaner, German industry will not have so much to plow back into capital investment...