Word: portion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handwritten letter, "What I have to say is this: I do not believe in war. I do not believe in the weapons of war. I am not going to volunteer the 60% of my year's income tax that goes to armaments. I am no longer supporting my portion of the arms race. Sincerely yours-Joan C. Baez...
...cutters, $2.91 for women wrappers) and for the increased cost of handling, cutting and wrapping, which amounts to 90 a Ib. Moreover, many housewives no longer will buy cheap cuts of meat, preferring to buy steaks that they can throw on the broiler rather than a 590-per-lb. portion of stew meat that needs to be cooked most of the day. Since there are fewer prime cuts, the demand tends to drive up the price, and keep it high...
...right-the A.P. or the Times? In the answer lay a journalistic lesson on the danger of listening with only one ear and getting only half the story. Both the Times and the A.P. were right-both were also wrong. Each seemed to have tuned in on only that portion of Che Guevara's interview that suited their contradictory themes. Castro's man had, in fact, been indulging in a little Cuban doubletalk-as came transparently clear in any thorough reading of the interview. Extracts from A.B.C.'s tape...
Munich has without a doubt the greatest zest for living and letting live of any city in the world. I know of no visitor to this paradise on the Isar who has not left a portion of his psyche "am Stachus...
...Western alliances and intends no military or non-aggression pacts with China. Then why is Pakistan playing footsie with Peking? The answer seems to be that Ayub Khan has long shared with his countrymen the conviction that Pakistan is surrounded by enemies: huge India, which still keeps the major portion of its army on the cease-fire line in divided Kashmir; hostile Afghanistan, which wants to carve a new Pathan nation out of northern Pakistan; pro-Indian Russia; and dangerous, expansion-minded Communist China...