Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard-line group has gained ascendancy in the Kremlin's labyrinthine power politics is intriguing, but far from demonstrable. As the theory goes, Russia's ruling troika-Kosygin, Brezhnev and Pod gorny-were called back from their Black Sea vacations by the party's new upper hand and presented with the decision to invade as a fait accompli. Aleksandr Shelepin, former chief of secret police and a longtime Brezhnev rival, is rumored to have put together the new alliance, which would probably include army leaders and militant young technocrats...
...condemnation of violence. Gua temala's right-wing newspaper, El Im-parcial, praised Paul's words on the subject as "particularly opportune" and expressed the hope that they would "contribute to the Latin American people's growing resistance to ideological struggle." The attitude of the upper class to drastic social reform was best reflected in Bogota's leading "liberal" daily, El Tiempo. "What is this 'reform of structure' that the church's reform ers speak so much about?" the newspaper asked. "Is it modifying society so that we shall all be poor...
...frightful. I can't find anything that I can afford," says Patricia Oberle, a young Manhattan medical secretary. She has been looking since February for another place to live because the rent on her present one-bedroom apartment in an elevator-serviced building on the upper East Side is about to jump from $235 to $315 a month...
Each infarct, or area of dead muscle, can interfere with the flow of electrical impulses that serve as the heart's ignition system. Normally, a current is generated for each beat at the "sinus node" (situated where blood enters the upper right heart). The charge then passes through the walls of the two upper chambers (auricles), making them contract. Then the signal is channeled through the auriculoventricular node (where the heart's four chambers meet), and passes through the ventricles' walls...
...some isolated ponds where the biologists found the walking catfish, it had already become the dominant species; in canals, it was fast gaining the upper hand over such native species as bass, brim and ordinary catfish. It seems to thrive in brackish as well as fresh water, and eats shrimp, crayfish, small minnows-practically anything that happens along. When biologists poison its ponds, it indignantly leaps from the water and starts across country during the daytime, sometimes dying of sunburn in the process. On land, where it forages nocturnally for snails and pine needles, the catfish is at its most...