Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stating his case, he is not above resorting to the most blatant loaded language. One example is his use of a story about one British couple who were driven from their flat by their West Indian landlord "by verbal abuse and filth smeared in and around their toilet...
...well-planned attempt despite the losses. The organizer was a Havana trucker named Delgado, refugee sources said, who made regular trips between the capital and the southern area near Guantánamo. Delgado decided to use his huge trailer truck to crash through the barriers, and a list of passengers was drawn up. Last week Delgado set off from Havana on a regular run, but this time a number of men, women and children were concealed in the truck. More were picked up in Cienfuegos and Camagüey, and by the time the truck reached the city of Guant...
...ranchers whose land is in the disputed area got together with the Venezuelan air force, and soon a Venezuelan plane landed at Harry Hart's ranch. About 40 ranchers flew off to a Venezuelan army training base, where they got automatic rifles, bazookas and instruction in how to use them. Just after New Year, the plane flew the rebels back to the Harts' domain, and the pocket revolution...
...particular I.F.I, interest is in Villar Perosa, a town of 4,000 not far from Turin. The people use a church on the Agnellis' 60-acre country estate and draw their livelihood from an I.F.I.-controlled ball-bearing industry. They also routinely elect Agnellis as their mayors. Gianni has held the job since World War II, and his main concerns have been with Villar Perosa's housing, its budget and its roads. Recently I.F.I, issued 3,000,000 shares of stock that were eagerly bought at $9.63 each by some 30,000 investors. Gianni...
Gianni-he was christened "Giovanni" but began early to use the shorter name to distinguish himself from his grandfather-followed a circuitous and somewhat star-crossed route to his inheritance. When he was only 14, his father was killed in a plane crash; ten years later, his half-American mother died in an auto accident. Gianni was raised largely by English governesses (he speaks impeccable English) and by his relentlessly entrepreneurial grandfather. He recalls that "we always wanted to know what was going on in Detroit"-and at 18 he was sent on a two-month auto tour...