Word: strips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came about because of the Assembly's current quandary over Russia's nonpayment of dues for U.N. peacekeeping operations in the Congo and the Gaza Strip. To avoid a disastrous showdown over the U.S.'s demand that Russia pay up or be banned from further voting, the General Assembly had decided (TIME, Dec. 11) not to vote on anything until a compromise could be reached. But General Assembly President Alex Quaison-Sackley was faced with the need to get Assembly approval of four new nonpermanent Security Council members to replace those whose terms were expiring. Though Indonesia...
...oasis of expensive Stetson hats and tailored twill trousers, herds of sleek Herefords, Angora goats and blooded horses, a fleet of Lincolns and a landing strip with a gleaming private plane, meals of venison steak, homemade bread and pecan pies, a heated pool and Muzak piping in The Yellow...
...Charlie Brown's "good grief!" an exclamation of fundamental Angst? Does Linus' blanket have a deep symbolic meaning? Such questions may sound like ways to take the fun out of Charles Schulz's famous comic strip Peanuts. But Robert L. Short, 32, a graduate student at the University of Chicago Divinity School, argues not only amusingly but also convincingly that Peanuts indeed has intentional theological significance...
Simon hinted at possible instances of mismanagement, ordered a three-man committee of review to look into the company's past dealings. The committee's first case: a $70 million Wheeling contract for a Blaw-Knox hot strip mill at a time when, says Simon, Blaw-Knox had little experience in such work-but did have a member on the Wheeling board. Giving Blaw-Knox the order, said Simon, was like "buying an Edsel with a Ford on the board." What did William Steele think of Simon's blast? "Without justification," he said, taking off just enough...
...young man doesn't have to look far. The morning after his first night with the widow, she is grotesquely murdered by the vengeful villagers. Some clays later, as Zorba's silly old slut lies dying, bestial peasants burst into her house and strip it while she lies weakly watching, strip it to the walls and leave her there alone with nothing but a bed to die on. And at the climax of the film the mine and all the money the young man has sunk in it go smash in one catastrophic afternoon...