Word: twists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maintain 225,000 men in Western Europe. Washington is perennially faced with the problem of offsetting the balance-of-payments deficit ($1.3 billion last year) that the troops generate, and must make up for it by selling weapons to its NATO allies. Recently, the Defense Department had to twist Bonn's arm to speed up payment on $675 million in reciprocal purchases...
...finished reading about the frustrations and inconveniences visited upon the poor students facing the draft [June 3], I received the news of the death in Viet Nam of my nephew, Lance Corporal Philip Dorn of the Marines. No one had to twist his arm to get him to go and help out in the job he knew had to be done. He and the thousands like him who have enlisted have made possible the deferment of many students who are using someone else's future to educate themselves. I wouldn't trade one of the memories I have...
...false ballots are only another twist in the most tangled Overseers election in the history of the University...
...style of its own which permeates the entire college. Today's students insist on creating their own music. The conventional dance bands who once stood assured Harvard bookings on important weekends have disappeared entirely. The initial swing to folk music at turn of the decade has given way student twist groups such as "Oedipus and his Three Mothers" who pound out their pulsing rhythm almost every weekend...
Hoevler, a lefty with a wildly spinning twist serve and sharp volleys, defeated the equally aggressive Waltz earlier this season in a team match. These two stand stop the field, with Adelsberg and Kileff just a little below. Gonzalez and Friedman should not be discounted as factors, however, after their impressive match play of the past few weeks...