Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Haut-Katanga had never been so preoccupied with explosives as it was last week. Outside the southern Katanga town of Kolwezi, unruly "gendarmes" in the service of Katanga's President Moise Tshombe had wired demolition charges to two huge Union Minière power dams and threatened to push the plunger...
...craftsmanship, Sloane's book would be of value for its intimate picture of the life of American country people at the turn of the 19th century. Young boys, like the one whose diary he follows, would get up on winter mornings, run across the road to the barn, push the cow or ox aside, then stand and dress in the warm area where the animal had been sleeping. If a house had more than ten panes of glass, the owner paid a glass tax-so most houses had ten and no more. Window glass, in fact, was so valuable...
Such an agreement, which would leave the ultimate decision when to push the button in U.S. hands, must be based on a mutual understanding of Western Europe in the U.S. Although this country has not obtained it to date, such an understanding can be created...
...high time for ballet in Washington," Franklin says. "We're going to become a truly resident ballet by taking a part in civic affairs. It's an uphill fight in a town that has not been exposed to much ballet, but we'll just have to push the citizens along a little. Why not? I think they're ready to be pushed...
Building Too Fast. First to be hurt-because they were the first to be ringed in by motels-were hotels in smaller cities. But now gilded, multistoried motor hotels audaciously push into the heart of big cities. And established big-city hotels find themselves further threatened by the fancy new hotels being put up by chain hotel operators, such as the Hilton hotels now going up in San Francisco and Manhattan. "Overbuilding is our biggest problem," moans Manager Philip Weber of Los Angeles' sprawling old Ambassador. "We're building new facilities more rapidly than either travel...