Word: portion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue was West Irian (Netherlands New Guinea). For years Sukarno has been claiming as part of Indonesia the wild, raw-material-rich western portion of the world's second largest island (after Greenland). For years the Dutch have refused to hand it over. Sukarno appealed to the U.N. "If the United Nations fail us," he warned last month, "we will resort to methods which will startle the world." The U.N. refused to consider Indonesia's demand, and last week Sukarno made good his threat...
H.A.A. spokesmen expressed no immediate concern over the Cambridge City Council's recent approval of a plan to fill in a portion of the Charles River for industrial purposes...
Construction of a special section room last year forced Winthrop to commit about fifty percent of this year's Ford grant to meet its cost. A portion of next year's gift also will be allocated for this purpose, Mavrinac indicated, but the remainder will be used for the long-term program...
Every man and woman in Britain is supposed in theory to contribute a portion of his or her income to the nation's health insurance and unemployment fund, and Britain's imperturbable bureaucracy is intent on allowing the fewest possible exceptions to the rule. Some months ago the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance sent one Harry ("Stopper") Corke its blanks to fill out, got them back with a note from Corke scribbled on the back: "I do not need these cards. I haven't worked for 14 months. I get my living by thieving." As credentials...
...Line. To carry out both functions without delay, NORAD must rely on the almost instantaneous coordination of all its parts, beginning with the outlying alarm bells of the newly completed, $600 million Arctic portion of the DEW line. Stretching for 3,000 miles along the northern rim of the continent, this line includes more than 50 stations whose surveillance radars interlock like an electric warning fan twelve miles high, from Alaska's Cape Lisburne to Canada's Baffin Island...