Word: ruin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Following standard procedure in recent Harvard to some crummy motel or ruin our sacroiliacs in the sex disclosures, the stories establish their validity with quotes from Dean Monro's much-cited letter to the CRIMSON. You know the words by heart...
...immediate appeal for order by President Roberto F. Chiari, 58, Panama's usually sensible businessman-President, might have helped the situation. But Panama's national election is May 10, and though Chiari cannot run again, anything temperate regarding the Canal would ruin his party's chances. In his presidential palace, Chiari fired off angry cables. He charged the U.S. with "unprovoked armed attack." In a wire to the Organization of American States, he announced that he was breaking diplomatic relations with the U.S., demanded an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council, where Panama's representative...
...medicines. But no one could gainsay the fact that most free, industrialized nations stood clear of crucial economic problems-while the Soviet Union's wheat crop failed, Red China's economy continued to falter at bare subsistence levels and Cuba proved a good showcase of how to ruin an economy in a hurry...
...passengers and 390 crewmen and relatives aboard the liner, it was indeed a Christmas they would never forget. In the dead of night, four days out of Southampton last week, the Lakonia was swept by a raging, uncontrollable fire that left the 20,314-ton vessel an abandoned, gutted ruin. Of the 1,041 persons aboard, 91 were known dead and 64 more were missing in the rolling Atlantic swells...
...crowned by fortresses, many of them, to judge by their pottery, dating from the time of King Solomon (961 to 922 B.C.). Glueck wondered why Solomon, so renowned for wisdom, valued this barren waste so highly. Then the Bedouins told him about a place called Khirbet Nahas -literally "copper ruin." The name, the Arabs said, had been