Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first half of Douglas' 1966 fiscal year, through May, profits have been nominal indeed: $645,000 on sales of $496 million. Only a tax credit of $990,000 kept Douglas from slipping into the red. Even though the company deferred part of its heavy development costs for the twin-jet DC-9, it lost money on the first 20 planes and failed to show a profit on a second group. Last week Douglas confirmed that it had raised the price for DC-9s by 4% from a minimum of $3,100,000. The increase became effective June...
...just been sitting for a sober portrait by Van Dyck or Rembrandt. Feste the Clown is dressed in pink and rose, and makes use of hand-pup-sets. The earnest Viola first appears is dark gold; but when she disguises herself as the page Cesario, both she and her twin brother Sebatian (each believing the other drowned) are clothed in white-ruffed cerulean, exuding the purity of Gainsborough's "Blue...
...world has long suspected that Charles de Gaulle has a mystical control over the atmosphere, and last week's performance in Russia confirmed it-climatically and politically. From the moment his tricolored, twin-flagged (French and Soviet) Caravelle touched down at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport to his week's end sortie into Siberia, De Gaulle trailed sparks and portents like a comet. Europe and the world scrutinized each move, each speech, each communique and each symbol for an indication of De Gaulle's intentions...
...East-West exchanges are more a faint patina than a deep-running break in postwar patterns and allegiances. But they are a part of the stirrings of nationalism and independence, a reflection of the willingness to re-examine the status quo that is inevitably having its effect on the twin military blocs facing off in Europe: NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries...
...difficulty lies in balancing the twin ideals of reasonably well-rounded Houses and reasonably satisfied students. The old method of assignment sent the majority of freshmen where they wanted to go, but each Class showed a disturbing tendency to crowd into a few popular Houses. The less glamorous Houses virtually had to shanghai their share of people...