Word: reede
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just another example of Sihanouk's ability to shift with the winds of international politics. Though Cambodia's chubby "god-king" is hardly the picture of a slender reed of bamboo, he is highly pliable nonetheless. So, apparently, is his nation's rickety economy, which seems perpetually bent out of shape. Teachers, civil servants and even the 30,000-man army frequently go without pay. Air conditioners in most of the capital's sticky offices are turned on only when important visitors arrive. Roadways are falling apart, but when Sihanouk recently ordered a load limit...
Dexter Newton and Harry van Oudenallen, both mid-fielders, also suffered injuries. After the Maryland game on Saturday one spectator was led to compare the team to "a ward from Walter Reed hospital...
Across the table from us a young man with a straggly, pointed heard was explaining the crucifixion. "Christ was in an extremely yang condition after carrying the cross up the hill. While he was nailed to it--which made him more yang--his disciples gave him vinegar on a reed. Vinegar is very yin, and it paralyzed his nervous system, which is also, yin. He got even more yin when they placed him in a damp cave. The paralysis didn't wear off for three days...
Then 60 paddlers wearing headdresses fashioned from lions' manes ferried the pair across the flooded, reed-grown Barotse Plain. As they arrived at the Litunga's winter palace, 12,000 prostrated Barotses chanted praises to the jerky rhythm of wooden xylophones, and Kaunda promised the Litunga $4,480,000 in aid-primarily for flood control and agricultural development. That should ensure Zambia against Barotse unrest. And with all those dams going up, it might at the same time lick the longstanding crocodile problem...
...students plan to pick crops in the North Central Valley and help unionize the workers. With increasing pressure on high school seniors to compete for college admissions many plan to stay home and study. At the college level, too, there are signs of growing preoccupation with studies. Students at Reed concentrate on "unstructured reading." "Let's face it-if you don't get working now, you don't get working," notes a Mount Holyoke girl...