Word: till
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sickened by all this, Mahoney desperately reaches out to a new life. He studies till his eyeballs boil and wins a scholarship to the university in Galway. But the struggle to escape exhausts his will to live. Fearing achievement more than failure, he subsides again into despair, quits college and sinks into the working masses, possibly forever...
...hearing, Crane claimed, would be jammed. "You won't be able to get an auditorium big enough to hold the people that want to come and will come." Still remaining was the possibility of escalating the political conflict: "Only a few torpedoes of minor size were let go till now," Crane said before the hearing. "But I can assure you that we've got some atomic energy." He pledged repeatedly to bring forth a long line of witnesses who would reveal further political dealings. Crane told Mayor Hayes: "You and your colleagues are going to be pulverized at the hearing...
...split up by race and then dismissed the Malays from military service, the amok mechanism was triggered. The Malays chased the Chinese major, beat up the Chinese recruits, who had not been dismissed, wrecked the company canteen, snatched up broken bottles and table legs (plus $100 from the till), burned two motorcycles and overturned a truck...
...glasses. Professional teetotalers kept the 6 o'clock curfew alive in Melbourne for 50 years, but last week it finally died. Acting on the advice of a royal commission, the state parliament pushed back the normal closing time four hours-so that Melbournians could stretch their drinking till a more civilized 10 o'clock...
...jaded water-skiers the sport called "water-parachuting," in which a skier, hanging onto a rope behind a speedboat, is lifted into the air a hundred feet or so by a special parachute, then is cut loose to settle gently into the water again. And for all, from morning till night, there is the sun. When it sets, there are the parties, two and often three a night. They begin late (Acapulco dinners start at 9:30, often last until midnight), and host and guests wind up at Tequila à Go-Go, which stays open until 5 a.m. The Rothschilds...