Word: scatteredness
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There have been scattered setbacks, of course. After the price controls were announced, but before they were instituted, many people spent their spare cash to stock up on groceries. "There was a collective psychosis," said one supermarket manager. Some merchants simply ignored the freeze and raised prices illegally. State inspectors...
MOSSAD, the Israeli intelligence agency, had in the meantime been stepping up its pursuit of Nazis scattered across South America. In 1960, in a raid on a house in Buenos Aires, Israeli commandos seized Adolf Eichmann, the man in charge of Hitler's "final solution," and took him to Jerusalem...
From their fortified redoubt, they unfurled banners out the window (U.S. STOP SUPPORT OF THE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP, read one). They also scattered leaflets that condemned both the U.S. and the government of President Chun Doo Hwan. As 400 policemen surrounded the building, U.S. embassy officials moved to prevent a violent...
Sixteen years since his only victory, Andretti will start the 69th Indy 500 from the second row, just behind Pole-Sitter Pancho Carter and just ahead of Unser. Sons Al Unser Jr. and Michael Andretti will follow in the fourth and fifth rows of brilliantly painted cars scattered three abreast...
European Correspondent Lawrence Malkin has learned, from five previous summits, the complications of official press briefings. "Each government holds its own, at widely scattered locations, in five different languages," notes Malkin. "They are also usually simultaneous, so each country's view dominates its own press." Senior Correspondent Frederick Ungeheuer, who...