Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There's a stake in your fat black heart And the villagers never liked you. They are dancing and stamping on you. They always knew it was you. Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through...
Thirty-five seats in a changing U.S. Senate are at stake in primaries this summer and general elections in November, and in Virginia the stakes are the life or death--or further fracturing--of a political organization which controlled the state for nearly 40 years...
...television last year Reston was asked how he decided whether to print something when the national interest was at stake. Although as an Associate Editor of the Times he rates mention on the mastheads, he replied that he is simply a reporter, and that his editor decides what to publish...
...worries are reflected primarily on Wall Street, repository of the hopes and dreams of 100 million Americans who directly or indirectly have a stake in the stock market. Vexed by the vagaries of Viet Nam, jittery about symptoms of inflation and talk of higher taxes to come, the stock market has dropped 119 points since it scaled an alltime peak of 995.15 on Feb. 9.* Two weeks ago, the slide gained speed with a surprise announcement from Detroit that General Motors was cutting back production. The market lost 26 points just after the news came...
...disarmament and the strengthening of the UN's peace-keeping machinery. Lord Harlech does not make the simple claim that Europe is more "important" than the Far East. Rather he implies that progress toward a world-wide East-West detente is more important than the rather confused issues at stake in Vietnam...