Word: spate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus Queen Elizabeth II agreed with Macmillan last week when he conveyed to her his Cabinet's advice that she should carry out her royal visit to Ghana, despite a spate of bombing incidents in Accra protesting the rule of Kwame Nkrumah. Fearful of the Queen's safety, Macmillan dispatched Commonwealth Relations Secretary Duncan Sandys once again to Ghana to see if the outbursts of violence warranted the cancellation of the visit. After satisfying himself that the Queen would be safe, Sandys flew back to London with the go-ahead signal...
...little-discussed reason for the spate of improved corporate earnings is that production costs in the U.S. are trending downward. Though some businessmen still find themselves in a wage-price squeeze, the Commerce Department's new index of wage and salary costs per unit of manufacturing production has been moving down since the economy started climbing back last March (see chart). Labor costs usually fall during the early stages of a recovery because production then increases more rapidly than hiring does, but this year's drop has been abnormally large...
...Across the nation last week, there was endless conversation about the threat of nuclear war. There was apprehension and an edge of sadness as men and women looked at their children and wondered about their chances of survival. There were the usual neurotics. In Chicago, public officials received a spate of calls from women complaining that their hair curlers were radioactive, from men suspicious of the olives in their martinis (Chicago Psychiatrist Milton A. Dushkin named the ailment "nucleomitophobia"-fear of the atom). A motorcade of 30 food faddists set out from New York to find new, safe homes...
...interesting contrast to Southern progress was a spate of segregation cases in Northern schools. They stemmed, not from defiance of the law, but from the ghetto housing in big cities that creates de facto segregation...
...Chattanooga Times's Charlie Bartlett, which detailed Bowles's difficulties. The stories, plus the lunch, could only mean he was being fired. As soon as he got sore, Bowles proved to be no pushover. With familiar Madison Avenue skill, he and his pals leaked a spate of stories on the sinister plot to send him into exile. Their catchy, if misleading pitch: "It will be a curious result if the first head to roll after the Cuban affair is the head of the man who opposed...