Word: senting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Union Oil announced that it would bear the full cost of repairing the mess, and instituted "Operation Sea Sweep." The company sent a huge cleaning contraption into the slick. Powered by tug, the V-shaped strainer-250 ft. across-skims the surface, and deposits oil in a barge. Trouble was, the swells constantly interrupted the devil's labor...
...Mayor Klaus Schiitz, the West Germans felt that under the circumstances they could not back down. Britain, France and the U.S., who had previously been skeptical about the political wisdom of holding the election in Berlin, felt obliged to back up the West Germans. So last week Bonn finally sent out 1,036 invitations to federal and state legislators, convoking them in Berlin on March 5 to choose between the Christian Democrats' Gerhard Schroder and the Socialists' Gustav Heinemann for the office of President of the Federal Republic...
...inattention to indulge in economic "crimes" of one sort or another, such as expanding their private plots at the expense of commune lands, or chop ping down state-owned timber, or with holding some grain from the government. To end this lax state of affairs, the regime has now sent thousands of "Mao Tse-tung's Thought Propaganda Teams" into the countryside. Kwangtung province alone has mobilized 50,000 industrial workers and 280,000 peasants for the heroic propaganda and purification push, or, as Peking labels it, the "purification of class ranks in the coun tryside." In effect...
PROFESSOR FAINSOD'S decision to enlist student "consultants" in his consideration of Faculty decision-making has sent another pulse of life into the reviving student-faculty dialogue at Harvard. Limited by his mandate from the Faculty, Fainsod has done his best to bring students into the debate on their role in university government...
Metallic Ring. When the blockade began, scant food reserves were swiftly consumed. Luftwaffe raids on warehouses sent tons of sugar, meat and flour up in smoke. Rations were cut again and again, finally falling to half a pound of bread per day for workers and only two slices (about 150 calories) for children. Citizens grew accustomed to eating library paste, boiled leather, and bread baked with cottonseed cake, even sawdust and cellulose. Cats and dogs swiftly disappeared. Any stray horse was likely to be set upon and butchered on the hoof by starving citizens. In the final stages...