Word: tors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Haiti has not been treated kindly by its black voodoo gods - or by its dicta tor, Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier...
...information for Cartographer Robert M. Chapin's diagram of Intrepid posed a particularly sensitive problem. While Bus Mosbacher, his crew and his family were generously cordial and cooperative throughout the intensive reporting and research for the cover story, a certain gentlemanly reserve surfaced when we requested details tor a cross-section drawing of the boat that would make features of its design graphically clear to readers from Newport to Sydney to the Isle of Wight. When Researcher Mimi Conway called at Mosbacher's office in New York to discuss the dia gram, he smilingly said, "I think...
...reader toward southwest England. After a few dutiful hours of brain racking, it is permissible to turn to the answers in the back of the book. In The Story of English, writes Borgmann, Mario Pei mentions a ridge near Plymouth called Torpenhow Hill. "This name consists of the Saxon tor, the Celtic pen, the Scandinavian haugr (later transformed into how) and the Middle English hill, all four of them meaning hill. Hence the modern name of the ridge is actually Hillhillhill Hill...
Schroder for fingering him, when Schroder was Foreign Minister, as the man who ordered the arrest of an edi tor in the 1962 Der Spiegel scandal. The ambitious Strauss, who aims at the chancellorship for himself one day and sees Schroder as a rival, accused Schroder of misleading the German public with "lies and deliberate propaganda...
...move was mostly psychological; in spite of the new rate, few member banks are likely to rush to the Federal Reserve's discount windows for loans. At the moment, they have all the money they need. A record rate of consumer saving and a decline in demand tor loans have pushed bank reserves to a four-year high. Bank deposits have increased 20% at an annual rate since the beginning of the year, while loans have dropped by $1.9 billion or 1.4%. Certificates of deposit, which hit a high of $18.6 billion during the tight-money crisis last August...