Word: sheds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Broadway theater owners, meanwhile, were solacing themselves with good news from Washington. Starting Jan. 1, 1966, the 10% tax on tickets (in effect since 1917) will be repealed. Further, prices will shed their straitjackets. Hit shows will be able to charge what the freight will bear, perhaps as much as $25 a ticket. Flexibility will also mean that for lagging shows, box-office prices can be dropped to rock bottom overnight...
...every loss of their own (see chart). And despite the grim headlines about Quangngai and Dongxoai, the Reds have yet to capture and hold a district or provincial capital for more than a few hours. What South Viet Nam's fighting men need is relief, however momentary, to shed the fatigue and despair of too much combat. Only the U.S. and its allies can provide that respite. When they do, the leadership and combativeness exemplified by Corporal Tu and Laughing Larry Luong, Major Cuong and Lieut. Commander Chau, may well exert themselves in every service...
...soon Radical Republicans, motivated by hate, greed, and lust for power, wrested control from Johnson. They shed crocodile tears for Lincoln and rammed through a plan for Reconstruction which raped the South, using Negroes as puppets to plunder and destroy. Finally, in 1877, the last military governments were dismantled, leaving the South in the hands of virtuous whites and race relations in permanent tatters...
TAKEN CARE OF, by Edith Sitwell. Memoirs completed shortly before Dame Edith's death last year that shed harsh new light on a gifted metaphysical poet and a self-dramatist who acted out endless roles for herself with astounding audacity and imagination...
...intend to share our experience with you. We are interested in and respect your views and hope you will respect ours." Retorted Ciporen: "Come on! Why not be honest with us? Like Johnson, you think we're a bunch of babbling idiots." Said Conlon quietly: "We want to shed light, not heat...