Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor living conditions, troops led by sergeants rose first in the town of Darn and then the capital of Freetown. At least twelve people were killed as a contingent of 300 men seized and threw into prison the entire ruling military junta, headed by Brigadier Andrew Juxon-Smith, 36. Then the sergeants went on the radio and announced the formation of something called the "Anti-Corruption Revolutionary Movement...
Unlike last year's coups, this one was welcomed by the people. They were not so much fed up with any corruption as with Juxon-Smith's fondness for lecturing them on "sweat and toil...
More important, Juxon-Smith showed no signs of returning the government to civilian rule, as he had originally promised...
...grades and tests in choosing students who show unusual initiative. Harvard, for example, rejected one applicant who ranked third in his high school class while accepting a classmate who ranked 15th and did not fare as well on his College Board exams. The youth chosen, explains Admissions Director David Smith, displays "personal strength and determination." Wesleyan similarly passed up a top student and star athlete from a suburban Boston high school to pick instead a lower-ranking classmate who, predicts Admissions Director Robert Kirkpatrick, "will work like hell to get through...
Show the ground he certainly does. Harold Smith is bedding down with Janet Appleby, and Marcia Smith with Frank Appleby; their set calls them the Applesmiths. Eddie Constantine and Irene Saltz make it together, and so do Ben Saltz and Carol Constantine; they are the Saltines. As for Piet Hanema, call him insatiable; he expands the permutations by sleeping with Georgene Thorne, Bea Guerin, Carol Constantine and especially Foxy Whitman. The sexual scenes, and the language that accompanies them, are remarkably explicit, even for this new age of total freedom of expression. Some critics have dismissed Couples as an upper...