Word: sections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raised and moved electric skillet dial is more likely to catch on a sleeve or be bumped by the arm, upsetting the skillet as the cook attempts to turn or place something in it. Why not just incorporate a twisting section into the handle similar to the gas control on the handlebars of a motorcycle...
...iron, second-timers had a "B" branded into their foreheads and anyone foolhardy enough to be caught the third time suffered death without benefit of clergy. The Maryland legislature had an opportunity to do away with the current, milder version as recently as 1953, when it repealed a companion section on cursing (penalty: 25? for the first word, 50? for every word thereafter). But the lawmakers left the blasphemy portion intact...
...front page of The Weeks in Review section of April 27, the following statements appeared: "Campus Turmoil--Faculty Falters in Leadership Role: The student revolt took two significant turns at major universities last week. At Cornell, guns were used for the first time in the seizure of a building. At Harvard, the faculty gave Negro students a voice in selection of black studies professor ... the faculty, under pressure from black students broke with one of the basic traditional principles. It voted to give students a major voice--six undergraduates to seven professors--in the selection of teachers...
...first felt it as a youth in Vilna, Lithuania, where he studied in the local conservatory and became the director of a music theater. During World War II, he emigrated to Australia and studied to become an M.D., but continued with music as a member of the violin section of the Sydney Symphony. Simultaneously, he served the Australian government by infiltrating the Soviet Union's intelligence network there-a career that he capped by helping to persuade Soviet Espionage-Chief Vladimir Petrov to defect...
...relations between the U.S. and the Common Market is the market's mountain of surplus butter, which is now 300,000 metric tons and is expected almost to double by next spring. With storehouses filled and the world market clotted, leaders of the Common Market's agriculture section are trying to persuade consumers to switch from margarine to butter. The proposed solution, which includes a tax of at least $60 a ton on the food oils used in margarine, would slash by one-third the U.S.'s $500 million annual soybean exports to the Common Market...