Word: crushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Civil Aeronautics Board authorized the talks. Airliners soon may be diverted at peak hours from congested airports, and passengers on peak-hour flights may have to pay premium rates. The industry blames the glut partly on private planes, but barring them from major airports would hardly dent the crush. At Kennedy, they make an estimated 10% of the flights. New York City's three major terminals at last count had 162 scheduled flights in and out bet veen 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. each...
...body -- including brain -- and non-body, between the gross private tyranny of the coarse machine Enderby must serve every minute of his life and the hard bright indifference of that panorama of people and places outside. Ranged against each other, equally complex, equally demanding masters, the two forces almost crush Enderby, who is too blind to differentiate between them. But Enderby withstands the buffets of circumstance and wins by doggedly avoiding every intrusion of reality. The author attempts to compensate for Enderby's isolationism by stressing his integrity--Enderby is loyal to the lord he has chosen, his own neurosis...
...both the Prague and Moscow governments announced that the Soviet troops were beginning to leave. No one knew, however, how long it would take for them to clear out. Many worried Czechoslovaks recalled that Soviet tanks had begun leaving Hungary, then suddenly turned around and come back to crush the rebels in the streets of Budapest...
...Wine: Fermented juice of grapes." -Webster's International Dictionary "Crush the pulp and stone of dates in a container, mix with hot water, clarify with lead acetate, add sugar to the mixture, then add chloridic acid. Heat to 60 or 70 degrees Centigrade. Let cool immediately and neutralize with potash." -Fake-wine recipe quoted in Italian court
...characteristically bold strokes about how to end the chaos, Pompidou all but ran the government from an emergency command post set up near his office in the Hotel Matignon. When some Ministers started cracking under the strain (one took to packing a pistol under his coat, another wanted to crush the rebellion in the same way that he had put down Algerian terrorism), Pompidou calmly took over their responsibilities. Sleeping in snatches near his desk and eating little but snacks, he urged concessions for the dissident students when others counseled a show of strength. He hammered out an agreement that...