Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bicycle riding has more than doubled in popularity since 1960. The annual bill for Exercycles, slant boards, Relax-A-cizors and other muscle-toning devices exceeds $35 million. Sales of the Royal Canadian Air Force exercise book have passed eleven million. This bible of the physically insecure now shares its...
Commission members number in the tens--instead of the thousands most observers feel the situation requires. They are organized into two sorts of units: "fixed" teams which are now largely useless in a shadowy guerrilla war: and all-important "mobile" teams, which hardly deserve the label. Not even land transport...
The fault was in the aim. Much of the film was shot in rural villages purportedly laid waste by U.S. bombing. Many of the participants, however, seemed to have come from Central Casting. They were indomitable, photogenic people, barefoot and singing as they cleared away the rubble. (The implication was...
Japanese students rioted by the tens of thousands in 1960 over the renewal of the U.S. mutual security treaty, and the nation's press egged them on with inflammatory stories and editorials. Last October the students once again took to the streets to protest Prime Minister Eisaku Sato'...
The admissions process consists of sifting tens of thousands of these hunches--some made by admissions personnel and other by New Mexico high school teachers--and emerging with 1400 students. (Only 1150 generally accept their places, and some 50 more are added from a waiting list.)