Word: tiring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other words, wrote Getty in the first issue of Britain's Automobile Association-published magazine Drive, the same chauffeur-style gentleness that "spares back-seat passengers any sudden jolts also gives maximum miles per gallon," and parking "with a suitable air of reverence avoids costly damage to tire walls." At the same time, the kind of tender loving care that chauffeurs generally bring to servicing and polishing "ensures long life for the car and maximum secondhand value...
Sadly, it is the bull-headed, unreasonable policy of the Johnson Administration which makes us the Neanderthals in this battle. It should be apparent by how that North Vietnamese leaders are willing to sustain substantial destruction at home in hopes that America will tire of its self-debilitating efforts...
...money program-but not at the expense of development. In the Northeast, the government's regional development agency, called SUDENE, is luring new industry with special tax incentives and is helping build a $37 million potassium-fertilizer factory, a $44 million caustic-soda plant and an $11 million tire plant. Brazil is building the new $25 million, 15-story Panorama Palace Hotel on a Rio hill side overlooking Copacabana Beach; it will be Latin America's largest and lushest hotel. The massive 4,000,000-kw. Urubupunga Project going up on the Parana River in south-central Brazil...
...combination of U.S. money and Vietnamese grit. It is called the Hamlet School Project, a scheme that has put half a million Vietnamese children in school since 1963, and which aims eventually at putting a school and trained teacher in every "secure" hamlet in the nation. In the en tire U.S.-supported pacification program, no project has proved more popular with the war-battered rural populace...
...last week as Prime Minister Harold Wilson returned from his sixth and last explora tory mission to the Common Market countries. The pilot of the R.A.F. Comet had heard a suspicious thump as the plane climbed out of Luxembourg's Findel Airport and, fearing a blown-out nose tire, had radioed ahead for emergency help. It was not needed. The plane touched down in a perfect landing, with only the adhering feathers of a Luxembourgian Redwing to show for the scare...