Word: tween
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with perseverance. We will not employ spectacular methods, which in principle I abhor." During the campaign he struck a nationalistic note by promising an "investigation" of what the International Monetary Fund has been doing "for and to" Argentina. He also promised to "an nul" the controversial oil contracts be tween foreign oilmen and the old Frondizi government. "But no one need be alarmed by this," he said. "Justice will be recognized, and if convenient to Argentina, they will be renegotiated." Illía plans to end the current state of siege, "return the armed services to their profession," create...
...year ago, he armed himself with letters from the President and Vice President of the U.S., and talked the Mexican Tourist Bureau into agreeing to lend the head to Houston. All he knew about finding the head was that it lay somewhere on the island of San Lorenzo be tween two rivers, about 40 miles from the town of Minatitlan in southern Mexico. The Mexican government lent Sweeney a helicopter, and with it he flew from village to village scrutinizing the terrain for any big heads, and occasionally landing to inquire if the villagers had seen one. The helicopter pilot...
...Internal Revenue Service has made Galvin a conversation piece again. It filed liens against his California property for $21,261,818 for back taxes-the largest lien against an individual in IRS memory. The Government says John Galvin owes that rajah's ransom for taxes unpaid be tween the years 1954 and 1957. Calvin's California lawyer says he owes nothing...
Where did the fat proton with its great cargo of energy come from? Cosmic rays are generally believed to be charged particles that have been speeded up by magnetic fields that are known to exist be tween the stars. But though this theory serves well enough for ordinary rays, the Milky Way galaxy to which the sun and its planets belong lacks magnetism strong enough to load 10²° electron-volts on a lone proton. Nothing else in the galaxy, such as an exploding supernova, could do the job either...
...Yemen is a battle be tween the 10th century and the 20th. The mountain tribes have no officers' corps or noncoms; they simply choose their sheiks and follow them into battle. "We captured 14 field radios,'' sighed Prince Abdullah Ibn Hassan, 25, a cousin of the Imam. "But none of my men know how to use them." Nor can they use captured tanks or trucks, since none of the tribesmen know how to drive. When they attack a tank, the tribesmen first kill off the accompanying infantrymen, then often set it afire with flaming corn stalks...