Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general grinds to a halt. Two enlisted men enter, paint him a neutral olive drab and carry him off to the Pentagon, where he will replace a computer...
Boumediene is even trying to patch up relations with Egypt's Nasser, who was so miffed by Boumediene's overthrow of President Ahmed ben Bella 18 months ago that he personally quashed a conference of neutral nations sched uled for Algeria. Last month Boumediene made his first state visit to Cairo, and suddenly the two Arab leaders were touring the capital like old friends-all smiles...
Harris never had a chance. The aggressive Henjyoji took him down from the neutral position and nearly pinned him during the first period, and in the second escaped from the bottom and took down Harris again...
Nice Writing. All such differences complicate teaching. Yet the schools are "sex-neutral institutions" - and "unequals are treated as equals." Teachers expect first-grade boys to write as well as their girl classmates, even though their hand muscles are less developed. "I don't see any reason to insist that boys write just as nicely as little girls," says Edward Feeney, supervisor of elementary schools in Prince Georges County, Md. Teachers also expect boys to progress at the same pace. "Why shouldn't boys take longer to go through the elementary school?" asks Elizabeth Wilson, a Montgomery County...
...gearshift indicators of automatic transmissions, "drive" and "reverse" must be separated by a neutral position between to ensure that cars will not be accidentally shifted into the wrong gear. The forward speed henceforth must also include a "braking effect" at 25 m.p.h. or less when a driver takes his foot off the gas pedal...