Word: rested
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gallup's last pre-election poll turned up 13% undecided. On the basis of past voting patterns, he "allocated" the undecideds more than 2 to 1 for the Democrats, which put the Eisenhower-Stevenson election into fifty-fifty country. Had Gallup instead discarded the undecideds and prorated the rest of the vote, his poll would have shown Ike over Adlai by 54% to 46%-Eisenhower won the actual election with 55% of the vote...
Everywhere, France writhed in revolt and dishevelment. Half of the nation's 16 million workers were on strike, and most of the rest were idled by a massive transportation shutdown. The country's students barricaded themselves in their universities. Farmers defiantly parked their tractors across the nation's highways. Protesters surged through Paris streets by the thousands each night, battling police and riot troopers. With startling suddenness, the serenity of Gaullist France had been swept away in what the French are already calling "the Davs...
This time, university officials presented the dissidents with two alternatives: vacate the building or be suspended. About half of the revolutionaries marched outside; the rest, including Rudd, stayed on and were later taken into custody by police who moved in through underground tunnels. Rudd himself was arrested by a long-haired plainclothesman who, passing as a protester, had mingled with the students and won their confidence...
...diagram), said Fournier, entered the top of Williams' skull, bounced off a bone near the pituitary gland and stopped in the temporal lobe of the brain. Another (No. 2) entered below the left eye and came to rest between the carotid artery and the jugular vein. One centimeter's deviation in almost any direction and this bullet could have caused fatal hemorrhaging. A third slug burrowed from the corner of the right eye into the jawbone. The fourth traveled from a point under the right nostril into the hard palate. The fifth bullet went through the roof...
...built C46 Commandos and Skymasters used to be outfitted with Cuban colors and repainted "Near East Airlines" overnight in order to evacuate 140,000 stranded Jews from Arab lands. More recently, during last summer's short but savage war, 60% of El Al crews were mobilized, while the rest moved military cargoes from Europe to Israel. "El Al is not only a national airline," explains President Ben-Ari, a scarred veteran of the 1948 Israeli-Arab war. "It is a national instrument in time of emergency...