Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...form or another, the three gases have been in use for nearly 40 years. The British used CS in Cyprus and British Guiana, a fact that must have surprised Foreign Minister Stewart no end, and the French used it in Algeria. Guards on both sides of the Berlin Wall have lobbed gas grenades at one another from time to time. The British have sold CS gas to a score of nations from Australia to Venezuela; the U.S. has sold it to such nations as Bolivia and France. It was used by New York state troopers during last year...
...Committee met be hind closed doors, giving the Kremlinologists in every Western chancellery another round in their perennial guessing game. When Izvestia delayed publication for some hours, an event that had not happened since the committee ousted Nikita Khrushchev last October, the mounting speculation even shook stock prices in Wall Street...
Louis Armstrong, 64, took his golden trumpet-blew-and the Wall didn't come tumbling down. Never mind. It was a mighty blast anyway. Cheering throngs of East Berliners, from the youthful hip to the Party drip, shelled out a capitalistic 15 to 25 marks ($3.75 to $6.25) apiece just to soak up all that jazz. Playing to packed houses on his four-week trip behind the Iron Curtain, Satchmo neatly muted the inevitable questions on race and politics ("Some of my best friends are Southern whites," he grinned) and gave the Volk encores and encores of Blueberry Hill...
That was probably the kiss of death. Over the past 15 years only three favorites have won at Churchill Downs. The wildest speculator on Wall Street would boggle at the boodle that has gone down the drain. Winning the Kentucky Derby may be every horseman's dream, but it is a munificent obsession...
...refuse chute comes down the other side of our bedroom wall. After late parties, we hear the descent of 21 stories of beer cans and bottles," another tenant said...