Word: tenseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The defendants, charged the SEC in its civil suit, "systematically looted the banks and insurance companies involved in their scheme." Said one official: "As far as can be determined, this is the biggest case we've ever had. It may run up into the tens of millions of dollars...
How many will choose to do so is anybody's guess. The Poles talk about "several tens of thousands," while the Germans claim that a minimum of 100,000 qualify on the grounds that they have next of kin living in West Germany.
Braced for Invasion. Blocked internally, Stalin launched an international Communist propaganda crusade against the Yugoslavs. Dedijer, then serving as director of the Information Office, was amused by personal attacks on himself, but was appalled when a Soviet book accused his first wife, Olga, of having worked for the Gestapo. She...
Last year, when Columbia University acquired a new President, a number of lavish, expensive ceremonies were planned to celebrate the event. The President turned these down, and he allocated the money, which ran into tens of thousands of dollars, to student aid.
The big trouble is that penology (from the Latin poena, meaning penalty) is still an infant art given to fads and guesswork, like the 1920s reformers who yanked tens of thousands of teeth from hapless inmates on the theory that bad teeth induced criminality. Even now, penology has not begun...