Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...green and gold chamber of the U.N.'s Security Council, the eyes of the diplomats flicked back and forth from the clock on the north wall to the impassioned face of Pakistan's Foreign Minister Zulfikar AH Bhutto. Before him lay the answer to everyone's question: Would it be wider war or tempo rary peace for South Asia? Bhutto waited until the last possible moment before answering...
...mountain flowers are purple underfoot. Yellow lichens and red moss brighten in the morning sun, and the heavy granite block retaining wall of the caravan road to Natu Pass curves in gentle arcs up to the ridge line that forms a natural border between Sikkim and Tibet. Just over the top of this ridge wait some 3,000 Red Chinese troops, part of the 17,000-man Chinese 2nd Division headquartered at Yatung. Other Chinese battalions guard Jelep Pass and the smaller passes into Sikkim. The tough Chinese troops at Natu, whom we had come up to see, have...
...outside his studio stand two British perambulators, quiet symbols of the treasured domesticity with his wife and two children into which he retreats to work on a dozen canvases at once. There, with vehemence, he paints an image of man as timeless as Stonehenge, as topical as The Wall...
...could slash prices and still be in the black. But that would drive Ford, Chrysler and American Motors to the wall-and bring down the trustbusters. On the other side, Detroit insiders buzzed last week that Donner was worried that Congress might investigate G.M.'s profits if his company followed Chrysler and raised prices...
Feeding the Bulls. What next? Some Wall Streeters, noting that the market had jumped 35 points in the past month, figured that it was due for a correction - a minor and temporary decline of 3% or 4% . Others reckoned that last week's pulling and pushing set the base for a blowoff, or sudden and possibly spectacular advance. Many Wall Streeters were predicting that the Dow-Jones by year's end would top 1,000, a goal that seemed almost impossible to achieve just a few weeks...