Word: steers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...permit. Since the Portuguese have no restrictions, refugees use nearby Macao as a handy jumping-off point to Hong Kong. In Macao, operating openly under the aegis of the China Travel Service, no fewer than five Communist agencies with enticing names like "Favorable Wind" and "Sojourn Intercourse'' steer customers to smugglers for a fee of $3.50 a head. After dark the travel agents put them aboard junks...
However Leary and Alpert did not join Dean Monro in warning undergraduates to steer clear of the drugs. When asked whether he thought Monro's warning was out of place, Leary stated: "We understand Dean Monro's desire to pacify worries about undergraduate activity, but we believe he is ill-informed about the effects of these drugs...
...shall be fortunate indeed if he becomes our next President, for he is a man who would steer this nation back to its proper place and would bring back the cherished principles on which it was founded...
...Steers. The sport that made Will Rogers a rodeo star originated with the vaqueros of Spanish Mexico, spread across the West in the mid-1800s. At first, trail-driving cowboys practiced the art on range steers, but so many good beef cattle were crippled that steer roping was outlawed in Texas 60 years ago. Today's rodeo cowboys rope calves-mean Brahman calves that weigh up to 300 Ibs. and can smash a roper's ribs with one kick. The roper races against time: on horseback, he must run down and lasso a charging calf, jump...
...stages planned: 1) the blasting out of a mile-long channel to detour the Nile around the main dam; at one point the channel will go underground through six rock tunnels (see map) and activate the turbines of a power station; 2 ) the construction of an upstream cofferdam to steer the Nile into its new bed. and of a second cofferdam downstream so that the river will not seep back into the dam site after its detour; 3) the building of the main dam itself, which cannot begin until the channel is cut and cofferdams are in place, supposedly...