Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mass Graves. But they were no match for the machine guns and artillery of Obote's army. After two days of fighting there was no palace left to defend. Great columns of yellow smoke rose over the rubble of Mengo Hill and the hillside was littered with fallen Bu ganda warriors. Cordons of troops prevented Red Cross workers from reaching most of the dead and wounded, but volunteers managed to carry more than 200 bodies to the central police morgue: the rest were hauled away at night in army trucks and dumped into mass graves, uncounted...
...went in 1959 for $36,400. ¶At London's Christie's auction house, a 241-piece dinner service of 18th century tobacco-leaf Chinese porcelain sold for $97,000. Made under Ch'ien Lung, a ruler of the Manchu dynasty, the service is patterned in rose-colored tobacco leaves, a style designed to appeal to the then-new Western trade. Only 20 years ago, according to Christie's, such a service would only have brought some...
...Nobody really likes this new art," confesses one of its kindest critics, Barbara Rose, who is married to a maker of cool geometric paintings, Frank Stella. "For one thing," she explains, "it is not very lovable. It is uningratiating, unsentimental, unbiographical and not open to interpretation. If you don't like it at first glance, chances are you never will, because there is no more to it than what you have already seen...
During the debate, Fulbright himself rose to complain that CIA Director Admiral William Raborn, when haled before his committee, had refused to answer anything but "superficial" questions. Russell, artfully invoking both his own prestige and Senate precedent, contended that 1) committees have traditionally been granted the right to "legislative oversight" of agencies that they have recommended, and 2) it was his own Armed Services Committee that had approved the birth of the CIA in 1947. "Unless the committee of which I am chairman has been derelict in its duty," the Georgian said pointedly, "there is no justification whatever...
...glowingly announced that the Fords had gone by at a wonderful rate in the first quarter of 1966: on sales of $3.2 billion, profits stood at a first-quarter record of $210 million, or 9% better than during the same period last year. Then Ford Chairman Henry Ford II rose and sent the winds gusting in the other direction. Blaming most of the auto industry's troubles on the safety squabble ("I have no other way to explain this abrupt drop"), Ford said that sales had fallen off by about 5% during April, and were down about 15% during...