Word: spate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plastic Patina. Some contemporary sculpture now jostling for Liebensraum in the living room cries less for the patina of age than for the quick eye jab of bright plastic paint. The result is a spate of new polychromists (see opposite page). Among them...
...Reds were hurting militarily. Perhaps, a little. At the same time, they probably did not want to take a chance of rallying support behind General Nguyen Khanh's regime by pressing major at tacks. At any rate, last week the Viet Cong cut loose again. In a spate of ambushes and fire fights-some within 15 miles of Saigon-they inflicted 403 casualties on government forces while suffering 266 themselves. The Communists captured 205 weapons, 24 radio transmitters, four field telephones and a typewriter. The government captured only 63 guns, largely because the Viet Cong have taken to tying...
...Bill Miller, usually gives a lot more than he gets. But last week, as Miller swept along a 4,931-mile trail through Indiana, Iowa, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Oregon, California, New Mexico and Colorado, he found himself on the receiving end for a change, fending off a spate of charges...
Goldwater's ascendancy at San Francisco brought these press theorists up short; the man so widely dismissed as a possibility was now the Republican Party's choice. But in the wake of the convention, the press defended its misjudgment with a spate of fresh anti-Goldwater comment. "Practically all of Goldwater's votes and views," said the Sacramento Bee, which had opposed Barry all along, "tend toward the enslavement of Americans." Said the Denver Post, "The Republican Party had its eyes open when it nominated Senator Barry Goldwater. It took the step deliberately; it knew what...
...Florida Atlantic University, a state school built amidst the grass-grown runways of an old bomber base in Boca Raton, will take juniors, seniors and graduate students to absorb part of the overflow from Florida's spate of new junior colleges. The latest electronic teaching aids-including closed-circuit television in every room and study cubicle, as well as a computer-controlled library and information-processing operation-are part of its Learning Resources Center...