Word: utters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thought to topple Albert or the big figure of Leopold II that stands before the Parliament building. Léopoldville has no visible revenue, but somehow the lights functioned, the garbage was collected and the water ran normally. Government departments were hardly functioning, but to the utter amazement of Manhattan financiers, a check arrived at Dillon. Read & Co.'s Wall Street offices from the Congo's Central Bank paying in full the $393,750 interest due Oct. 1 on Congo bonds...
...technique is one of pure simplicity," says Karsh. "I generate so much enthusiasm when working that the subject becomes part and parcel of this enthusiasm." Actually it is not that simple. He arms himself with extensive research on the habits, mannerisms and quirks of his subject. "I live in utter agony after I have taken the picture. I know there are so many things I could have done to make it better, but I am exhausted." His fees: $600 in the U.S., $200 for Ottawans, $300 for anyone who comes from elsewhere to Ottawa...
...this year, when Nigeria, Senegal and the former French Sudan will have been admitted, the only sizable nations not belonging to the U.N. will be Switzerland (out of devotion to utter neutrality), Red China, Outer Mongolia and the cold-war twins: East and West Germany, North and South Korea, North and South Viet...
...Rule of Rules. The rest of Kennedy's legislative program shortly met with an utter rout in the House at the hands of Virginia's leathery old Howard W. Smith, who has been a Congressman since Kennedy was 13 years old. The consent of Chairman Smith's powerful Rules Committee is needed to send a House bill into Senate-House conference. Backed up by the committee's long-time alliance of Republicans and Southern Democrats, conservative "Judge" Smith handed Northern Democrats a tough warning: the committee would kill off Kennedy's $1.25-an-hour minimum...
Suddenly it came. "Da sheontee kono meki no sienti holay coriente no sheonte mees . . ." said one of the women in a cool, musical voice. She continued for about a minute to utter these sounds, meaningless in any known language. No one glanced up or spoke. After a minute or two of silence, she "interpreted" what she had said: "The Lord thy God says unto thee that he is here in the midst of thee . . . When you pray, fear not. He is with you always, and his love surrounds you like a fleecy cloud. Thus saith the Lord." This was greeted...