Word: unload
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...shrine: the Arch of Freedom, in which the original of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation will be on display. In the same area will be a museum, a library, the state archives building, and an outdoor amphitheater. Automobiles will be banished to the nether regions. Vehicles will unload on two levels below the promenade, and beneath the reflecting pools will be parking space for 3,000 cars...
...friends, fans and jobs. His life, as even he tells it, began to sound like a punk's diary. "I didn't know the word for it then," he says, "but I can see now that I was defensive. I had a chip on my shoulder." To unload it, Torme took his troubles to the psychiatrist's couch...
...taken because last year Japanese industry-carried away by Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda's plan to double per capita income in a decade-launched into an orgy of expansion. Imports of heavy machinery became so great that ships had to wait as long as 30 days to unload, and Japan's trade deficit jumped to a record $1.5 billion. Determined to get the nation's balance of payments back on even keel, Ikeda raised interest rates, put curbs on imports, and mounted a drive to increase exports...
...ship arrived in Beirut harbor with 2,400 tons of wheat for the Palestinian Arab refugees, powerful voices throughout the Arab world demanded that it be sent away untouched. But Lebanon's Public Works Minister Pierre Gemayel was too realistic for that, went ahead and ordered longshoremen to unload the ship. Then, to the shock of Arab zealots, he demanded a "complete revision'' of boycott regulations, which, he said, were rooted in "chaos and fantasy." L'Orient, a major Lebanese daily, was bolder still, flatly urged the "defunct Arab League" to end its "ridiculous" boycott procedures...
...that order of vulnerability), whose economies are heavily reliant on tariff-free exports of meat, grain and dairy products to the British market, from which they may be excluded by 1970. Britain's toughest opposition came from the French, whose own farmers are already hard pressed to unload their high-cost surpluses. Even in Britain a Daily Mail national poll showed 52% were against British membership, compared with 42% two months ago. Nevertheless, Britain's giant Trades Union Congress voted overwhelmingly against rejection of the Common Market last week...