Word: spate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wheeler's statement immediately touched off a spate of "inside" reports, purporting to prove that nuclear warfare was imminent at Khesanh. Claiming that nuclear weapons were already being stored in Thailand, a University of California professor said last week that "for the first time since World War II, the United States is planning to use nuclear weapons in combat...
...like it has been triggered by last month's sentencing of four young intellectuals to terms in labor camps. Soviet writers, scientists and university teachers, who once quaked in fear of the Kremlin's displeasure, have drawn up petitions, loudly condemned the sentences and fired off a spate of letters not only to Russia's newspapers but to the Soviet Supreme Court, the Politburo and several other government agencies. In an unusually bold campaign, they have accused the Russian press and government of deceiving the people about the facts of the case and demanded a new trial...
Because Seoul's prime concern is the infiltration of terrorists from the North, Washington's preoccupation with Pueblo caused friction between the U.S. and South Korea. After a spate of Korean protest demonstrations, editorials and official statements, the U.S. dispatched Troubleshooter Cyrus Vance to Seoul as a special presidential emissary empowered to discuss the "grave threat" from the North. In addition, Johnson went out of his way to laud "this steadfast ally" when he made his request for special military aid to South Korea. By week's end the handholding operation appeared to have been successful...
...weeks, Cambridge police have mounted a systematic attack on Avatar. By Monday night they had arrested some 40 students and Cambridge area residents who attempted to distribute the bi-weekly magazine. Most of the sellers were charged with selling "obscene literature." Curiously, the policemen increased their harassment while a spate of court cases to decide the extent of Avatar's social disutility was still pending. Actually, given their past performances, it is unlikely that the higher courts of the Commonwealth, much less the U.S. Supreme Court, would ever bar the frank, satirical publication. Were the courts to prove so prissy...
There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes, 192 of which are covered with hair. Number 193 is the naked ape called man. Anthropologists have filled libraries with evidence that shows how far man has grown away from the ape, but in this latest of the current spate of ape books, British Zoologist Desmond Morris takes a different tack...