Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Argentines woke up one morning last week to find that, overnight, second-grade beef had shot up from 5 to 8 pesos a kilo, cigarettes from 1 peso to 1.50 for a pack of ten, cheap rum from 11 to 16 a bottle.* The rocketing prices were the result of a major overhaul of the nation's economy by the members of Argentina's Economic Council, known to Buenos Aires' harried financial community as Los Muchachos (The Boys). While observers both in Argentina and Washington thought the new measures might be sound in principle, Los Muchachos...
...charge of $15 per term for overnight parking will apply to all lots and day parking at the Business School area will carry...
...some places, they abandoned positions that seasoned troops might have held. But in a land and among a people that most of them dislike, in a war that all too few of them understand and none of them want, they became strong men and good soldiers-fast. Quite literally overnight they learned all there is to know about sticking, fighting, killing and dying. The business of soldiers is not to die but to live, and they are learning to do that, too. I have seen boys who by rights should have been freshmen in college transformed by a week...
...Yorkers acted as if, overnight, the U.N. had been transformed into a giveaway quiz show. They trooped to Lake Success, jammed the Security Council chamber, the corridors and other conference rooms (where television sets relayed the proceedings a few feet away). Some 23,000 requests for tickets had to be turned down. Among those who came to see the Russians' return to U.N. was Margaret Truman, who squeezed into the press gallery with a party of six. "History," she said, "may be made here today...
...Nationalist regime on Formosa has not turned overnight into an American good-government league's dream of good government. Since the island contains both the exiled government of China and the provincial government of Formosa, the lines of responsibility are apt to get tangled. Wu, for example, is theoretically in charge of the island's internal security. But in addition to his own provincial police, Formosa is guarded by the Nationalist government's secret police and the army intelligence service. Governor Wu is thus in the somewhat cramped position of the captain of a ship when...