Word: wording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which ricocheted harmlessly off an emergency oxygen bottle on the cockpit ceiling. Then Minichiello insisted that the jet take off at once. Trailed by a small plane full of FBI men, it flew northeast to Bangor, Me., to take on fuel for the ocean crossing. Again Minichiello passed the word through Cook that only the fueling crew was to come near the Boeing. Soon the jet was airborne once more, this time for Shannon and Rome, with only the skyjacker, Volunteer Stewardess Tracey Coleman, and a crew of five on board...
Tribalism is a distasteful word to educated Africans. It suggests that atavistic fears play a disproportionate role in the politics of new African nations. Distasteful or not, tribalism is a key to many African problems-a point that was made all too emphatically in Kenya last week. President Jomo Kenyatta, who with his fellow Kikuyu has ruled the country since independence in 1963, threw Opposition Leader Oginga Odinga in prison and banned his Luo-dominated party...
...late one evening at the U.S. embassy, a 19-year-old girl in tow, and spent the next several hours all but ignoring U.S. officials in favor of an enthusiastic tête-à-tête with the young lady. A short time before, he had carelessly leaked word of the U.S. bombing halt in Viet Nam before the news had been released in Washington. The White House was annoyed, and so were Gorton's fellow Liberals...
...Word flashed out of Manila that Charles A. Lindbergh, flying a little Piper L5, was overdue and presumed down near Kawayan, 170 miles northeast of Manila. Instantly, rescue craft took off along his track, searching for wreckage. Happily, it was a false alarm. The 67-year-old Lindbergh, who now devotes his life to the cause of conservation, had simply set his single-engine plane down in a dry rice paddy to avoid a tropical squall. Then his battery went dead, cutting out the engine starter; finally he hitched a ride with a passing motorist to get his battery recharged...
...quite familiar with both the attitudes and machinations of Hokanson and his conservative sidekicks who have served as the official non-voice of student body. They seem either unwilling or incapable of providing the leadership which an increasingly activist and even "liberal"-if one can use that word-M. B. A. student faction is demanding. Apparently unwilling to concede that more and more M. B. A. students (especially black and chicano students) are determined to put an end to the Business School's splendid and serene isolation from the larger University community and from larger societal issues in general...