Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Elisabethville seesawed inconclusively. One minute, the streets were full; next minute, people were scattering in all directions at the sound of incoming shells or a long, looping machine-gun burst from a distant weapon. Often a barrage caught Katanga's loyal whites of the home guard in mid-Scotch or mid-meal at an Elisabethville bistro. "Ah, it is time to go," shrugged one 24-year-old as the crump of nearby gunfire sent the lunchtime customers to the floor at one restaurant. Shouldering his rifle, he left in the direction of the shooting...
...companies better personify corporate achievement than St. Paul's Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co., known for short as "3M." Sales of 3M products ranging from Scotch tape to missile-tracking components have skyrocketed from $4,700,000 in 1931 to $549,700,000 last year. Hundreds of U.S. investors who put their trust-and dollars -in research-minded 3M have blossomed with new wealth as the company's stock soared, split and soared again...
...Colonel. Hamilton was the bastard son of a French-English mother and a Scotch father who lived together apparently with full approval of the community on the West Indian island of St. Kitts. At the age of 14, Hamilton confided to a friend: "My Ambition is prevalent that I contemn the grov'ling and the condition of a Clerk or the like, to which my Fortune &c. condemns me and would willingly risk my life tho' not my Character to exalt my Station. I shall Conclude saying I wish there...
...Saturday afternoon, a talk by the mayor of Toronto provided a refreshing change from serious disussion and campus touring. The highlight of his talk was a bit of Canadian-American history: "In the War of 1812, the Scotch- Canadian soldiers marched down to Washington with their kilts, skirts, and other implements of war. They ate lunch at the President's Restaurant, and then, burnt it down. It was rebuilt and painted white, so Canada deserves credit for the White House...
Last summer, after a lung ailment that preceded his heart attack. Styles Bridges was visited in his hospital room by a reporter bearing a bottle of Scotch. "You know," he said, "I'll be back next session, but by golly, I'm going to take it a little easy." Among his Senate colleagues, Styles Bridges was respected as one whose political word was his bond-but this was a promise he could not keep...