Word: tides
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...very probable that the Conservatives will win the next general election," Macridis declared, for the Cabinet changes should "turn the tide" of public support in favor of Macmillan's Party...
Confident Service. TFM was first used in 1958 on lamprey-spawning streams that flow into Lake Superior, and by last spring the tide had turned against the slimy invaders. The number caught in traps as they tried to swim upstream fell to 12% of the 1961 catch. The adults are apparently dying off and are not being replaced by adolescent larvae...
...Sunday, a privilege shared by some Anglican "worker priests" in British industrial cities who labor weekdays in factories, preach and worship on Sunday in mission chapels. Beaumont is currently in the midst of tidying up his communications interests. For "a nominal sum," he recently sold the weekly magazine Time & Tide, which he saved from extinction in 1960 and turned into one of England's liveliest but most unprofitable journals of opinion (he lost $1,400 a week on it). Now he is at work planning a new magazine that he hopes to see on the stands by next February...
...years ago, a question was asked in all seriousness in South Africa's Parliament in Cape Town: Does apartheid on the beaches extend to the high-tide or low-tide mark? Aghast, M.P.s finally concluded that in either case Africans could wade across from black beaches into white water, spoiling it for white swimmers. The problem was finally solved by taking a precedent from international conventions; apartheid on the beaches was extended out to the three-mile limit...
...Holdouts. For most investors, Rhodesian and foreign alike, all this makes Central Africa seem a bad risk. But one important group is holding out against the tide of pessimism: the three great companies that dominate the Copper Belt and have a stake of $850 million to defend in Northern Rhodesia...