Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rights that could be used as reserves along with gold and dollars. The S.D.R.s would be certificates representing members' credits in the International Monetary Fund. They would make it less necessary for other governments to hold so many dollars in reserve-and less burdensome for the U.S. to redeem these dollars with gold...
...great many flabby, middle-aged Americans. And how have they reacted? They are skipping rope in a gym class, jogging around the reservoir, pedaling a pinioned and wheelless bicycle, flailing arms before the bedroom mirror, doing push-ups on the office floor-in a tenth-hour campaign to redeem years of reprehensible physical neglect...
...January 21, President Pusey emerged from his den in Massachusetts Hall to blast those "overeager young" student protesters "who feel they have a special calling to redeem society." Harvard students do not often hear from their President, and their reaction to this diatribe may have convinced him to resume hibernation. Harvard's era of dissaffection is far from spent, and Pusey's remarks will do little to hasten its demise...
...review attributes "a near-perfect technical mastery" to Seth Carlin's playing. I, for one, could not judge his fingerwork, because of the overall blur his heavy footwork gave the music. And no clear overall understanding of the piece came through to redeem the technical haze...
Ever since it tossed out the man who styled himself its "redeemer," Ghana has been trying to redeem itself from his mistakes. Far from wanting to forget Kwame Nkrumah, the National Liberation Council that overthrew him in 1966 has endlessly reminded the 8,000,000 Ghanaians about his aberrant schemes. It even holds lectures on "What Went Wrong in Ghana?", at which the audience invariably utters cries of disbelief. The ruling junta of police and army officers, headed by Lieut. General Joseph Ankrah, has done a great deal more than lecture, however. It has not only rescued Ghana from...