Word: seesaws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SEESAW...
...seesaw match was resolved late in the final period as Owen broke a tie and won it for the veterans...
...deliberately bombing the dikes of North Viet Nam? That was clearly the most perplexing question of the week about the war in Viet Nam, where the rival armies remained locked in a bitter, seesaw battle for Quang Tri city. The accusation was serious, since nearly 15 million peasants live in the Red River Delta, whose floodwaters are controlled by a centuries-old, 2,500-mile labyrinth of earthen dikes (TIME, July 31). In the virtual absence of uncontestable firsthand information, however, the shouting of partisans all but drowned out the testimony of witnesses...
...rooms and courtrooms while Taverner's destiny is worked out. Allegorical characters such as Joking Jesus, a Pope/Antichrist and Jester/Death trail them in symbolic profusion. Director Michael Geliot (on loan from the Welsh National Opera) and Designer Ralph Koltai have built their set around a huge tower of seesaw platforms on which the merits-and fates-of Taverner and his antagonists are literally and figuratively weighed in the balance...
...began to circulate that the International Monetary Fund, the clearinghouse established at Bretton Woods in 1944, would eventually ask for a 13% to 14% revaluation of the Deutsche Mark against the dollar. Naturally, the dollar thereupon began to drift downward. Then came Sato's surprise announcement. In a seesaw effect, the dollar began to move back up, reflecting a feeling among investors that higher prices for Japanese goods worldwide would help boost U.S. export sales. By the close of business Friday, the mark was being traded at 3.40 to the dollar, a functional revaluation...