Word: soared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision seems to be that Illia's "government of reconciliation" is not enough for Argentina's restless citizens. Since taking office 17 months ago, Illia has allowed the debts, wages, prices and everything else to soar, while hoping that the basically rich wheat-and-beef economy would somehow work itself out of trouble. It has not, and many Argentines, searching for leadership, yearn for the days when El Lider was in power...
Yamasaki's 25-ton columns soar 80 ft. The Parthenon's portico rises only 34 ft., and the columns of Paris' Madeleine church climb 65 ft. But Yamasaki winces at the comparison. He prefers to call his colonnade, in congenial fashion, a porch. "When you build something," Yamasaki insists, "you ought to be a good neighbor...
...includes one seven-foot jumper, Louisianan Dick Ross. Pardee, who has cleared 6 ft., 10 in., has apparently recovered from an ankle sprain that kept him out of last week's meet against Boston College. Njoku topped 6 ft., 6 in. against the Eagles and may be ready to soar even higher in the Garden...
...becomes a gubernatorial candidate, the narrator points out that Republicans raised the cripple issue but Al Smith killed it, saying "A Governor does not have to be an acrobat." And what do you suppose leaps to the screen? A whole big top full of circus acrobats who swing and soar and throw triples for what seems like five solid minutes while the point sinks...
Stretching the Constitution. Yet in Bolivia's hotheaded politics, where emotions soar as high as the Andes, Paz made many enemies. Last year he rammed through a questionable constitutional amendment allowing him to run for a second consecutive term. In protest, opposition parties, and even many of his own party members, handed in empty ballots in the May election. As the hostility increased, Paz in September declared a state of siege, imposing press censorship and packing several of his loudest critics off to exile. Next Paz quarreled with his Vice President, Rene Barrientos, 45, an ambitious air force general...