Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great challenge of the European Common Market. Said Secretary Hodges:"We need-we must have-a trade policy that will assure us access to this booming market." But as the Common Market moves toward its goal of abolishing tariffs between member nations and erecting a common external tariff wall, the U.S. could find its exports largely shut out. That is where the trade bill comes in. Its essential purpose, explained Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, is to enable the U.S. to "bargain down the outside tariff wall of the Common Market...
...Parry, seemed to be trying to say something. Among the posters on the wall were an announcement that "Young Americans for Feudalism" would sponsor a speech entitled "Will public education destroy private initiative" and a sign "Homans saves" (for the uninitiated, Homans wrote a touching panegyric about the 13th century English peasant--400 pages worth--75 of which were devoted to measurements of the peasant's plow...
...fleet will operate from three house floats which will be to the wall of the Charies River the M.I.T. sailing . For the Club has leased boats but has never been able to more than nine hours of sailing...
...track barriers that once seemed as formidable as the Great Wall of China are crumbling like castles in the sand. In a single season indoors, U.S. athletes have produced a 16-ft. pole vault, a 64-ft. shot-put, a sub-4-min. mile. Last week, as the trackmen started moving from indoor boards to outdoor cinders, Negro Sprinter Francis Joseph Budd, 22, prepared an assault on the sturdiest barrier of all: 9 sec. for the 100-yd. dash...
...ruthlessly lopped off marginal old ones, including its longstanding coffee producing and wholesaling business. When Grace Lines slipped into the red two years ago, Peter Grace unsentimentally sold off eight ships and slashed administrative and maintenance costs. Last year the 26-vessel line was back in the black-but Wall Street rumor continues to insist that Grace would sell it, given the right offer...