Word: myriad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East-West leaders refrain from dragging the Cold War into the United Nations the organization will survive the present crisis. If, however, they insist on waging their battle for world supremacy through the U.N., the world organization will be crippled and the myriad problems that lie outside of the East-West conflict will remain largely unsolved...
...leading to the Mystic River Bridge. Now the Health Board has drawn a sinister blue line to separate it from the rest of Boston. Beyond the line, the North End contains an Italian village which is in many places very pretty. You can't drive there conveniently--the myriad one way streets are difficult to navigate--but it is the place to go to look for monuments...
...short, happy life as heavyweight champ, Ingemar Johansson (see SPORT) found U.S. advertisers beating a path to his throne with blank checks and myriad products for him to endorse-everything from Pioneer key rings to Man-Tan and Lord West tuxedos. Only a few went away disappointed. Among them: a vacuum cleaner manufacturer who wanted the champ to lie down on a rug in the ad, and a group of prosperous salami makers who wanted Ingo to pose beside a pile of salami (Ingo agreed to do it, but not for hay: he asked...
...rice fields stretching south of Saigon seem quiet enough as farmers in conical hats go about their tasks of burning off the stubble of the last harvest or deepening the myriad canals in expectation of the first rains. At sunset the war begins...
...Myriad Laws. Even marrying a young man as Europeanized as herself has its drawbacks. Many African men profess to be Christians, but enjoy the best of two worlds by having one church wife and several tribal ones. Under Uganda law such bigamy is punishable by five years in jail, but the law is rarely applied. Said a social worker: "If it were, the entire African aristocracy would be in prison...