Word: portion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...youngest world champion ever by riding three waves 600 yds. or so, tucking himself out of sight in "the pipe" (the fastest, most dangerous part of the wave, where it rolls over and down) to gain speed, sliding around the buoys without losing "the green,"-the unbroken portion of the wave...
...shallow center of the North Sea. Their quest-for natural gas to supply fuel-shy Europe-will be one of the world's most closely watched explorations. The wildcat operation off Dogger Bank, a favorite ground of herring fishermen, is the first to probe Britain's portion of the continental shelf. It is involved in a prospecting race that has roiled the waters of the North Sea and shows promise of reshaping Europe's entire energy market, which now imports 42% of its needs...
Clark cited testimony before congressional committees which showed that racial discrimination is a nationwide problem, that Negroes are so uncertain of finding accommodations when traveling that it impairs their "pleasure and convenience" and has "the effect of discouraging travel on the part of a substantial portion" of the nation's 20 million Negroes. Observed Clark acidly: "One can hardly travel without eating...
...Auschwitz. It was spoken there by 16 lawyers and a judge from a Frankfurt war-crimes trial, who had made a special trip to Poland to check the credibility of testimony given at the trial of 21 accused Nazi murderers. Since war's end, Poland has kept a portion of the camp intact as a memorial to the estimated 3,000,000 slain prisoners, and as the German voices rang out, a Pole who had himself been imprisoned at Auschwitz shuddered. Later he said: "I closed my eyes and it was as if it were yesterday...
Though it ended months before the Atomic Age began, the Russo-German portion of World War II was in almost every way a conflict on a thermonuclear scale. Upwards of 20 million Russian civilians and soldiers lost their lives. Over 3,000,000 German soldiers were killed, wounded, or missing. The U.S.S.R. lost over 60% of its coal production; total industrial output declined by one-half. Whole cities were heroes: the Battle of Stalingrad lasted seven months with as many as 40,000 people killed in one day, while the siege of Leningrad went on for 21 years and killed...