Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's "guidelines" are designed to improve the deficit in our balance of payments. Because Americans now spend abroad more than foreigners spend here, there is a net outflow of dollars from the United States, Central banks in other countries have the right to convert their surplus dollars to gold. And the resulting gold drain jeopardizes the stability of U.S. currency...
...first Michael Clark Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship will be awarded next year to a member of the Class of 1966. It will enable him to spend the year after he graduates travelling and studying abroad, and will carry a maximum stipend...
...Princeton TV viewers who gather together nearly every evening in our dorms are known as the "tube team." Only those "weenie-grinds" (students who spend too much time in the "libe" and not enough watching the tube), lacking the basic cepts, call us the "viz squad...
...demonstration, 4,000 campesinos marched noisily past Mexicali's U.S. consulate, carrying a coffin covered with salt. Realizing that the U.S. was vulnerable under international law, Presidents Kennedy and Johnson pressed hard for a solution. Under the new agreement-not a formal treaty -the U.S. will spend $5,000,000 to build a 13-mile drainage canal that will divert the salty water from the Wellton-Mohawk project into the Colorado River at a point safely below the Mexican Dam. If pollution remains dangerously high at the end of five years, the U.S. and Mexico will get together...
...hearing room in honor of Carl Vinson, 81, retired chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. The crusty old statesman characteristically replied that he was "too busy" for such foofaraws. So out to Milledgeville, Ga., went an innocent phone call from the White House asking him to come spend the weekend. Of course Vinson accepted. And of course L.B.J. hustled him right over for the dedication ceremonies, where the President recalled his own days as a very junior member of Vinson's committee. "I sat in silence for four years," chuckled Johnson, until one day he started asking questions...