Word: v
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issues where there was less fear of bringing down the government, Wilson received jarring setbacks. By a wide margin, the party voted to withdraw British forces from east of Suez by 1970 and trim annual defense expenditures to $4.9 billion (v. $6 billion at present). The party also endorsed Frank Cousins' one-sided resolution to "bring all pressures" on the Johnson Administration to stop the fighting in Viet...
...customary instruments compelled him to devise a new written language that would convey the sounds he wanted to hear. Today, many of his notational inventions have become the accepted form for avant-garde composers. Tone clusters, for example are designated by highest and lowest notes by A ar>d V...
...Youth v. Age. Writing that constitution will be the Assembly's duty for the next six months. Last week, as the delegates began organizing themselves into committees, the politicking had already begun. The younger representatives were lobbying vigorously for a share of the chairmanships that in the normal traditions of Vietnamese society would automatically go to their elders. The central Vietnamese, encouraged by General Vinh Loc, II Corps commander, were trying to put together a bloc to protect their interests against the north and the south. All told, some 60 to 70 political parties provided the setting of South...
...trade with West Germany during the first half of 1965 has turned into a $74 million edge for the Germans this year. The Dutch always run a deficit with the U.S., but this year the red-ink total has nearly doubled, to $327 million. Overall, imports are up 13%, v. only a 7% increase in exports...
...superficial aspects. The book drifts in two unsynchronized directions. One leads past Jimmy Kinsella, a second-generation Irish Croesus who has prodded his youngest son Charles into the Governor's mansion and then sits by, fulminating helplessly, as the family splits over the hoariest of issues: political realism v. political idealism. O'Connor's solution is resourceless and unbelievable: Governor Charles, the realist, has his brother Phil, the idealist, committed to an insane asylum. The story is narrated by Jimmy's nephew, Jack Kinsella, who supplies the book's other direction. Jack's wife...