Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twilight walks by the Charles, hand in hand"--did we ever do anything but hold hands? "The Wednesday night dinners"--when I tried to rub knees with you under the table you spilled milk up my sleeve. "The early morning bicycle rides"--what can you do on a bike...
...Bundestag, not surprisingly, voted down any German notation of the anniversary. "We truly have no occasion to celebrate this day," said Chancellor Ludwig Erhard in a moving speech. "The guilt and fate of this epoch of our history will not leave us for generations." Moscow, however, was determined to rub it in on the West Germans. Premier Aleksei Kosygin flew to East Berlin to join Puppet Walter Ulbricht and Poland's Premier Jozef Cyrankiewicz in a parade of thousands of Russian and East German troops...
...with his fourth victory of the year, a 4-0 shutout. Only three Yankees got to first base, and the game mercifully lasted just 1 hr. 40 min. -shortest of the season. "I wanted to win," explained Terry afterward, "but I wanted to make sure I didn't rub it in." If he didn't, the ninth-place Washington Senators did: they promptly took two out of three from the Yankees. Manager Johnny Keane grimly declared: "Anyone who figures we're washed up is just plain foolish." Maybe so. But the Yankees have yet to play their...
...seethed to express myself," he said, and decided that newspaper work offered the expression he craved-and the chance to rub shoulders with "bankers, millionaires, artists, executives, leaders, the real rulers of the world." Hot on the trail of success, he crashed New York at 23, leaped into a job at the World, quickly leaped out again, a back-country boy flummoxed by big-city journalism. Pressed by a friend, he decided to try a novel. He jotted down a title at random-Sister Carrie. Then he started writing, without a plot, without a character in mind...
English Only. Under the British North America Act of 1867, French Canada, meaning the huge eastern province of Quebec, retained its own language, Catholic religion and cultural identity on an equal basis with the English. Quebec is still overwhelmingly French. The rub is over the word equal...