Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office while the youths pounded on the door and broke up furniture. There were more demonstrations in other towns against the High Court, and a number of Europeans were beaten. Posters reflected the angry mood: "The Only Good White Man Is a Dead One" and "One Zambia, One Nation-Minus Whites...
...life, Chain-Smoker Wayne began to feel kinda poorly. Pilar persuaded him to consult a doctor. He dropped out of sight for a few months, then surfaced after a successful operation at Good Samaritan Hospital to utter his most quoted line: "I licked the big C." He was minus one lung, but his energy had not diminished...
...chairman of the Finance Committee and junior Senator from Louisiana, some of whose campaign contributors look upon a cut in the oil-depletion allowance as something akin to matricide. With scarcely a sideways glance at the Democratic leadership, which wanted delay, Long bolted party ties and brought the surtax, minus reform, to a committee vote. With two Democrats defecting, it was approved 9 to 8. Some saw a trace of hubris in Long's defiance of his party's leadership. Since his rejection as assistant majority leader last January in favor of Edward Kennedy, skeptics maintained...
According to Teddy's statement, he left the Dike Bridge in shock and on foot, wet and minus his passenger. Why Teddy told no one about the accident and did not seek help for the girl, why no one called a doctor or even asked Kennedy what had happened-and indeed how he got back to his hotel-are questions, that must now puzzle not only the police, but also Ted Kennedy and his nationwide constituency...
...situation. A British salesman, Steve Howard (Rod Steiger), picks up a snippy, nubile hitchhiker named Ella (Judy Geeson). In a little black notebook, Ella has been rating her loves the way a teacher marks her pupils. After a night in a Birmingham hotel, she grants the salesman an A minus, a mark that prompts him to give his wife...