Word: size
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...royal families who governed half the country and one-fourth of its people turned over their kingdoms to the central government in exchange for tax-free pensions and a series of special privileges. The pensions varied all the way from $26 to $665,000 a year, depending on the size of the kingdom; many princes retained most of their accumulated wealth. The privileges included immunity from arrest and civil lawsuit, and retention of old titles, many palaces and estates...
Defense Minister Healey said that Britain would honor its obligations to the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization but that the forces pledged to SEATO would be altered in "nature and size." Warning against the assumption that "we will never again have to use our forces in the Far East," Healey said that in the next decade new air craft will enable Britain to move men into the area faster and in much larger numbers than now. Britain plans to base recently purchased U.S. F-111 jet fighter-bombers both in Singapore and in Australia. So far, there is no change...
Four nights running, and even during the heat of the day, snipers' bullets spanged off sidewalks, night sticks crunched on skulls, and looters made off with the entire inventory of scores of stores (one small Negro boy was seen carrying table lamps his own size). New Jersey's Governor Richard Hughes proclaimed Newark a "city in open rebellion," declared a state of emergency, and called out the National Guard. More than 4,000 city police, state troopers and Guardsmen patrolled the city's debris-littered streets...
...method is so simple that, in most cases, it can be carried out under a local anesthetic in the doctor's office. The patient is told to fix his gaze on a distant object. Then, while his eyelid is held open, the icy tip of the pencil-size probe is applied to every part of the diseased section for seven seconds at a time. The area is thawed each time with a salt solution to unstick the probe and eye, which freeze together after the fashion of a finger on an ice tray. After the thaw, the entire procedure...
...their spirit-and their private plane. Every weekend, all summer long, the 18-seat Caroline makes the Washington-Hyannis Port run with a full load of assorted Kennedys, Shrivers, their staff members and house guests. The crunch comes when it is time for the flight back to Washington. The size of the original entourage is often swelled by guests who made it up to the Kennedy compound on their own, and there is often a scramble for seats. But such, reason the commuters, is the price of flying on a non-sked airline...