Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took away the gun while Cua shouted, "I'm the mayor! I'm the mayor!" When Cua swung at them, the Americans handcuffed him and took him, protesting, to a Vietnamese police station. Brother-in-Law Loan quickly had him brought to his office to sleep it off, and next morning chewed the mayor out in no uncertain terms. But there were also Vietnamese sensitivities to be considered. U.S. Ambassador Hen ry Cabot Lodge expressed Washington's "regret" at the incident, and General Loan announced that henceforth American MPs would confine their arrests to U.S. personnel...
...sources, including banks, insurance companies, and large corporations. Finally, just five days before the deadline set by Simon's contractors, Gulf Oil made a fifteen million dollar commitment. The price: first mortgage on all of Simon's land, an option to buy stock in Reston, and the only gas station in town...
...vote margin over Zolton Ferency, "the man with the ethnic name." Perhaps the most clear-cut demonstration came in Chicago's heavily Polish Eleventh District, which has been represented for years by a professional Pole, Representative Roman Pucinski. Pucinski is part owner of a Polish-language radio station, his mother has her own Polish program on another station, and no one is a more assiduous attender of parades and anniversary celebrations. Two years ago, Pucinski won handily with a 31,500 majority. This year he barely squeaked past a candidate of no particular distinction named John Hoellen, of vaguely...
...something of what must be Yevtushenko's great quality in his native tongue comes through in at least one poem in the Marshall translation, his uncompleted "epic" composition, Brat-sky GES (Bratsk State Hydroelectric Power Station). There is special pleasure in these episodes where the original metrical scheme does not call for rhymes above and beyond the call of the English language, and where...
This is inevitable on a noncommercial TV show budgeted so low that there was only one rehearsal before taping, where volunteers had to be recruited to wash dishes, and the food sometimes had to be auctioned off to the audience afterward to cover expenses. Obviously, the station could not afford to dub the flubs even if it wanted to. The thing is, it didn't. Seeing Julia Child goof can only make viewers less fearful of disasters in their own kitchens. Says the producer, Ruth Lockwood: "We wanted to let Julia be herself at any cost...