Word: move
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crisis' root was Argentina's oil problem. With coal supplies meager and hydroelectric sources remote, the nation runs on oil; it burns 250,000 bbl. a day to power factories, move trains, heat homes, cook food. An estimated 2.3 billion-bbl. oil reserve lies underground, but the government oil monopoly, Y.P.F., has only enough resources to produce 35% of the country's requirements. Dollar-short Argentina spent more than $300 million last year to import the rest. Frondizi saw only one solution. Risking the wrath of nationalistic Peronistas (and nationalists in his own Radical Party), he negotiated...
...week's end, a move to replace the resigned members with six of the town's leading bankers fizzled when the bankers politely declined. For a while it seemed that there might be no new board; but before the deadline, 15 citizens, most of them known segregationists, filed for the six posts. Facing the new board after its election: a ruling last week by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ordering continued desegregation of Little Rock schools...
Five of the starters on the Jonathan Edwards team could have played varsity ball if they had gone out for the squad, another member of the team commented after the game. Dunster failed to move the ball past...
Poet Ezra Pound has made an "unprecedented" move in sending his latest "Canto" to the Yale Literary Magazine, the editors announced yesterday. They are planning an Ezra Pound Issue, and said that this was the first time the poet had contributed directly to a student publication...
...Curley's Harvard career came in the 'thirties. The depression gave numerous opportunities to sport with President A. Lawrence Lowell. Distressed to note that the 1931 Harvard-Army football game was to be played at the Cadets' small field, Mayor Curley pressed President Lowell to move the game to Yankee Stadium, with the extra proceeds going to the City of Boston for its unemployed. When Lowell protested that a Harvard team could play only on a college field, Curley arranged for Boston College to play Holy Cross at Harvard Stadium on Thanksgiving. With an undefeated record, Barry Wood's team...