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Word: underway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forests and surrounded the village. Grenades went flying into the bar, and machine guns opened up on the Portuguese as they spilled out of the crumbling building; 113 soldiers were killed. The guerillas disappeared into the jungle with their first major victory. A new African revolution was underway...

Author: By John D. Gerhart, | Title: Portrait of an African Revolutionary | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

...name and capabilities: the Unimog. This ungainly, versatile product is one of Daimler's biggest sellers; it can be used to cut roses, bore shafts, or climb 70° slopes, is the transportation for the first motorized west-to-east expedition across the wide part of Africa, now underway. To sell its buses, which range from a ten-passenger miniature to a 180-passenger monster, Daimler has developed a "people-to-people" campaign aimed at developing nations. It has sold 1,350 buses to Teheran for its public-transportation system, wishes that it could do as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Growing Old Richly | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

...want a canal, then negotiate a series of treaties with them that will permit the U.S. to make a thorough study of the possibilities. The test borings and surveys would take about four years. Once a route is decided upon and a final treaty written, construction will get underway. If possible, the U.S. would like to use nuclear explosives to dig the trench. Nukes are faster than dynamite, run one-tenth the cost, and would hold the price for the Colombia canal to $1.2 billion, the Nicaragua-Costa Rica canal to $1.24 billion, or the southern Panama route...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panama: Dig We Must | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

Meanwhile, a virtually complete general strike at the University was underway outside. With the campus virtually paralyzed, an ad hoc assembly of nearly 900 faculty members sent a telegram to Gov. Brown protesting the use of police on campus

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 800 Arrested at Berkeley; Students Paralyze Campus | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...withheld communication to you until the Combined Charities Drive was well underway so that this letter would not be construed as interfering in student processes at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFSC SPEAKS | 11/25/1964 | See Source »

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