Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began after dawn with a thunderous artillery barrage that sent the villagers of Chhamb and Dewa in the southwestern tip of Kashmir scurrying for shelter. As the sun rose higher over the semidesert land-flat, dotted with brush, a low mountain range to the north-Indian troops peered anxiously toward the border. What they saw sent them in a hasty retreat to the mountains: over the arid earth came 70 U.S.built Patton tanks and, in the dust cloud behind the lumbering giants, a full brigade of Pakistani infantrymen...
...through a rib cage. An "incident" may be anything from the skirmish of a dozen men to the blare of a propaganda bullhorn; whatever their nature, incidents are on the increase along the Gia Dinh perimeter. From February to April they averaged 37 a month. Through July the rate rose to 55 a month. Last month the total was 95, including four VC assaults in force, and 17 attacks with grenades and mortars...
When Shuttlesworth began reading the announcements during a Sunday service, Deacon Robert Pierce rose to declare that the trustees had called an open meeting to discuss Revelation's financial affairs. Shuttlesworth ruled him out of order, and 200 members of the congregation began chanting: "We want a meeting! We want a meeting!" The commotion lasted for nearly an hour, while the police stood by in case things got out of hand. Back came the cops again last Sunday, when Shuttlesworth got into another shouting match with the dissidents...
...modest 1.9% from a year earlier), largely because of the higher costs of auto insurance, home ownership and meat. Without the recent federal excise tax cuts-75% to 80% of which have been passed on to the consumer-the index would have pushed even higher. Wholesale prices rose to a new record in July, gaining 2.5% over a year ago. Raw-material prices have risen 10% in the past year, helping push up the average of industrial prices by 1.4%. Economists find none of these increases alarming, but each of them means higher costs for someone...
...small compared with U.S. television revenues, the annual totals are rising into more substantial figures in some countries. Last year Italy sold $21 million worth of TV advertising. In West Germany, where eight regional networks run almost nothing but "slice-of-life" commercials portraying housewives at work, ad revenues rose from $33 million in 1960 to $94 million last year. Britain's ten-year-old ITV now airs more than $300 million in TV time for advertisers as varied as chocolate-maker Cadbury's and Procter & Gamble...