Word: parceled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning last week bustled the everyday traffic from Hong Kong: pongee-clad farmers hauling produce, old women bent double under sacks of flour, visitors with gifts for relatives on the mainland. By mid-morning 200 travelers had crossed the frontier, and one of them was carrying a lethal parcel. Then, as the line shuffled through Red China's wooden customs shed, a powerful blast splintered the building, killed an inspector and a woman traveler, injured 27 others...
They were even ordered to check the two-pound parcels of food that pour into the hungry mainland at the rate of more than 1,000,000 a month. Day after the explosion that sealed the border, a bomb was found in a food parcel...
...successor as Commander in Chief of U.S. Forces in Europe will be the Army's General Lyman (Lem) Lemnitzer, 62, since 1960 chair man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It was a fitting choice: Lemnitzer was one of the drafters of the NATO treaty, later helped parcel out arms to U.S. Allies as first di rector of the Office of Military Assistance in 1949. Though France's crusty President Charles de Gaulle growled "Je ne le con-nais pas" when he heard of Lemnitzer's selection, there is little doubt that the NATO member nations will...
...confirmation. But he shows no understanding of his opponents' point of view, misses the irony that he became as evasive under congressional grilling as Oppenheimer did when queried about his Communist connections. But Strauss's critics should beware of charging him with arrogance; it was part and parcel of the doggedness that led Strauss to fight for the hydrogen bomb when more adaptable people had their heads in the sand...
Each cotton farmer has an acreage allotment, which cannot be sold or otherwise transferred; it remains attached to the parcel of land...