Word: remnants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was outrage enough for Bourguiba to organize a stylized, Arab-type demonstration. Orators wailed that Tunisians would fight to remove the last remnant of evil colonialism. Crowds ecstatically shouted for action. Roads to the base were blockaded, and Bourguiba warned the French to keep their planes out of Tunisian airspace. Barricades were erected at a safe distance from French outposts...
They were the remnant of a remnant, holdouts in a battle that both their own nation and their enemies had long since considered over. But for eleven years, thousands of Nationalist Chinese soldiers maintained themselves in the mountainous corner where China, Burma, Laos and Thailand meet, and defied all efforts to dislodge them. When attacked by the Red Chinese, they slipped across the border to sanctuary in Burma. When Burmese troops tried to flush them out, they retreated to China. But last week their luck...
...decline of the M.A., which is the remnant of a teaching degree, into a device for sloughing out the mistakes of the admissions offices, has made the Ph.D. into the only valid post-graduate degree. But McGrath's proposal that study for the degree should be shortened to two years compromises the research value of the degree. An entirely new degree, or a resurrection of the M.A., is the only solution to the Ph.D. bottleneck...
...door and out a trap door at the top of the closet, had stopped the normal decay of flesh a few days after death. What was the cause of death? Looking close, Dr. Evans spotted traces of fabric embedded in grooves around the neck. It was the remnant of a length of woman's stocking. At its end was a reef knot, twisted tightly...
...only state-wide office being contended is that of auditor. The incumbent, James A. Rhodes, is practically the only remnant from the Republicans' said days, and is seeking his fifth term