Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this disparity that brought a stiff Indian protest to Washington last week, complaining that Pakistan's modern planes and armor were supplied by the U.S. with the explicit understanding that they would never be used against India.* Ayub Khan responded that "we will spend our time dealing with the enemy rather than putting the American weapons in cotton wool." Uncertain just what was happening in the Chhamb area, U.S. military officers flew to the fighting scene to investigate the charges...
...glad to cooperate with business people, real craftsmen who say they expect to spend $150,000 here, all told...
...fair circuit also imposes its conditions. Even between shows, the headliner is always on. He can count on being greeted by the mayor, booked to attend a P.T.A. lunch, scheduled to address the Lions' Club. The most conscientious, like Ernie Ford, spend off-hours playing the local children's hospital, old folks' home, and perhaps the jail. There are command performances at shopping centers and interviews with every 1-kw. disk jockey in the county. And the stars' best chance to relax-the private parties local functionaries are always thrusting upon them-are off limits...
...astronauts began switching their systems back on. Fuel-cell experts had actually underestimated the system's efficiency, were surprised that they could get sufficient power with such low pressure and so little oxygen fueling the cells. Had they known this beforehand, they could have permitted Gemini to spend enough power for the planned rendezvous with the Radar Evaluation Pod (REP) that it had previously ejected. By the time they found out, REP's batteries were dead, and it was too late...
...answers the Freedom Committee: the issues are simply Shuttlesworth's one-man rule over church finances, and the question of how much time he should spend away from church working for Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The accusations stagger Pastor Shuttlesworth. "If I'm a dictator, I'm a benevolent one," he says. "I sleep with the parishioners on my mind, thinking of their misdeeds and the evil in their hearts...