Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Punjabi-speaking state in the western half of the present state of Punjab (see map). In 'the past, the demand for Punjabi Suba had been repeatedly rejected by the Congress Party on the grounds that it would establish a state on essentially religious grounds, something that India's constitution prohibits. Not so, argued the Sikhs, who claimed it was a matter of language. They are the only one of India's 14 major linguistic groups that has not been granted a separate state. Sikh Leader Sant Fateh Singh, 54, threatened to go on a 15-day fast...
...Western scientists, it seemed obvious that the flight of the space dogs was merely a prelude to a major step in Russia's manned space program, which seems to have been marking time since Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov took the world's first space walk a year ago. And it left little doubt that the Soviets are doggedly determined to put the first man on the moon...
...night after a game, I fell asleep listening to him talk about stopping the fast break. He hit me with an eraser. If I missed anything then, it'll surely show up here." Haskins, it turned out, did not miss much. While he yelled encouragement from the sidelines, Western's all-Negro five effectively buried Kentucky's fast break with pinpoint control of their own backboard, inspired hustling and just plain scrappy play. The final score...
...play the way you want to." And they didn't let Kentucky. From the opening jump-off between Miner David Lattin and Wildcat Thad Jaracz, they had Kentucky off balance and off the goal. Midway through the first half, when Bobby Joe Hill, 21, Texas Western's standout guard, cleanly stole the ball twice in a row at midcourt, the Wildcats went into a reel that they never quite pulled out of. With a defense that strangled Kentucky in close and on the outside, Texas Western just kept pulling away by leaps and bounds until the final horn...
Workers, even for unskilled jobs, are scarce. Detroit automakers have imported unemployed mountaineers from Appalachia to sweep floors at $3 an hour. In western Pennsylvania, General Laborers Local 1058 says it will be cleaned out of common laborers for construction jobs at $3.71 an hour by June. Inland Steel has 600 openings for unskilled workers, has had to hire 150 college students just to fill vacancies in its weekend cleanup gangs...