Word: scorings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These and a thousand other truisms or semi-truisms are readily recalled in times of financial trouble to bolster this or that point. But money is also something very simple beyond all those definitions. It is one reliable means of keeping score on the accomplishments of a person, a company or a country. Money gives its possessor a range of choices, and the way that a nation chooses to handle its money sharply illuminates its character. When the world tumbles into a financial crisis, the problem reflects the deeds and misdeeds of the principal governments, and at least in part...
...reminiscences published in Russia last year, Abel not only makes light of this lapse but uses it to score a point for his team, joining Spies Kim Philby and Gordon Lonsdale in the international intelligence game of trying to make the rival service look as dim-witted as possible. Abel boasts that he was able to destroy the most incriminating evidence under the noses of the arresting officers by flushing his encoder down the toilet and scraping paint from his artist's palette onto the coded cable. In the car that took him to prison, Abel claims that...
...sent another 36 to the hospital. In the panicked crowd, a nine-year-old boy screamed: "I saw a hand flying in the air. I saw a head rolling in the street." So fierce was the blast that it set fire to half a dozen shops and a score of cars, and shattered windows half a mile away...
After intermission, the Crimson returned the starters to the floor and piled up a 30 point lead within a few minutes. The final score was Harvard 97, Inceptors...
Villanova took top team honors for the third year in a row with a score of 142. They outdistanced nearest contenders Stanford, USC, Colorado, and Minnesota. Mike Ryan of Air Force Academy captured individual laurels and was trailed by Georgetown's Steve Stageberg and Art Dulong of Holy Cross...