Word: smokeless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...needs are most conspicuous in the impoverished states, many of them new nations. Almost by definition, an underdeveloped country is an undercapitalized country. Struggling to advance from muscle power to the machine, its people anxiously eye their smokeless horizons in search of capital to build factories, hire managers and export young men to universities from Göttingen to Berkeley. They cast an envious glance at such cities as San Juan and Teheran, which have risen from squalor to considerable splendor in less than a generation. The modern influences of communications-tourists, transistor radios, Hollywood films, advertisements-have carried...
...their drive, the Americans destroyed Viet Cong camps, food supplies and enough concrete bunkers to shelter a division, discovered such incidental supplies as 8,200 pairs of Ho Chi Minh sandals, more than 40 tons of rice and two smokeless kitchens complete with a table set with fresh flowers and a bottle of Russian liqueur. In the first two days of the assault, however, they succeeded in killing only 19 Viet Cong. Later, as their horseshoe-shaped net tightened, a few more Viet Cong began showing up. In a series of firefights, the Viet Cong death toll had risen...
N.Y.U., located in Greenwich Village, is putting its experts to work helping neighborhood artists and actors, creating smokeless incinerators, improving slum schools, and studying New York's complex fiscal situation. Columbia has contributed heavily to the redevelopment of Manhattan's Morningside Heights, including helping to hire private patrolmen for the crime-ridden area around the school; graduate students of its School of Architecture have worked out a beautification project involving the Hudson River waterfront between Yonkers and Peekskill...
...outer limit of marksmanship for most cowpokes, few of whom could afford to by guns or ammunition or target practice. Belle Starr and Calamity Jane looked more like Hoss Cartwright than Miss Kitty. Billy the Id has been described as an "adenoidal idiot." And until about 1890, when smokeless powder came into general use, acrobatic gun battles-with snipers falling off balconies into water trough-were unheard of, because each shot kicked up a cloud of acrid black smoke that soon blinded everybody...
Wholesale Murder? Camaraderie, however, was notably absent last week. The chimneys of all but a handful of the city's sento were smokeless, and signs on the doors read, "Suto-Chu [On strike-closed]." The sento suto was called because the city government had been stalling for nearly six months on granting a rate increase from 6.3? to 8.8? per adult admission requested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Public Bathhouse Business Association on grounds of "increased expenses...