Word: palming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only four days before Mauker's strafing, Sukarno had suspended the 257-man Indonesian Parliament, thus removing the nation's last vestige of constitutional democracy. Through his tame Supreme Advisory Council, Sukarno ordered sweeping land-reform measures, directly threatening the vast plantations producing rubber, palm oil, tobacco, tea, sugar and coffee chat have been in foreign hands for decades. It was an action that seemed certain to depress even further the nation's faltering economy (the Indonesian rupiah stands at 450 to the dollar on the free market, as opposed to a "legal" value...
...Kennedy flew eastward at week's end in the family Convair. On the agenda this week: three days of campaigning in New Hampshire, where the nation's first primary comes off next week-and where nobody doubts that the boy from neighboring Massachusetts has things in the palm of his hand...
...drifted down out of the inaccessible mountain coves that at least a dozen persons had already starved to death, and a dangerous famine was imminent, three Indian air force transports and two Indian airlines cargo planes began airdropping 40 tons of rice daily. Mizo Hills Christians in their little palm-thatched village churches, and animists who still worship nature deities, offered concerted prayers that when the April rains turn the brown hills to emerald green, the bamboo will not bear its evil blossoms again...
...Relations Division were canceled, and every vice president under the age of 70 was mobilized and armed with statements." Then Jack finally decided to take a vacation in Hawaii and Hong Kong-but for some reason, he went by way of Florida. Somehow, he happened to land in West Palm Beach, a quick Cadillac ride from Boca Raton, where NBC brass happened to be attending a meeting with network affiliates. Quite naturally, when NBC Bosses Bob Sarnoff and Bob Kintner learned of Paar's arrival, they dropped everything and motored up the highway to greet him. The meeting...
...kaffiyeh, he recited the prayer: "In the name of the Great Life, healing and purity are thine, my Father, their Father, Great Yardna of living water." Then he began his ablutions. First he washed his hands and face and cleaned out his ears, snuffed water from his cupped palm into his nostrils three times, washed his loins, bathed his knees and legs three times, dabbled all ten fingers in the river, and finished by dipping his right foot twice and his left foot once...