Word: afar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...having the word republic or republican in the title. In fact, about the only thing the two sides can agree on is to suspend the conference until after the month-long Islamic holy fast of Ramadan, which begins next week. Nothing doing, said both Feisal and Nasser from afar. The conferees were told to stay in session until an agreement is reached. Yemenis being Yemenis, that may be until Haradh (average daily temperature: 98°-plus) freezes over...
Harvard's fullbacks woke up in the second period and Bowditch made several great saves to hold Yale scoreless. But a lackadaisical offense did little more than gaze from afar at the Yale net. Before Harvard decided to start trying to beat Yale to the ball, Kerry had scored once more...
Remote control by radio and light waves has come along to operate from afar everything from TV to garage doors. This week Sonus Corp. will add a new tone to remote control. It will start distributing the Sonuswitch, which is activated by sound...
...ranged afar from auto parts to take over such firms as Chicago's Miller Manufacturing (steel castings and forgings), Connecticut's Mal Tool (aerospace components) and Long Island's Unicord Inc. (musical instruments). Outside of G. & W., Bluhdorn and some other associates in the past two years have bought control of New York City's Ward Foods (TipTop bread) and the Bohack supermarket chain (196 stores). When acting for G. & W., Bluhdorn often uses stock instead of cash to buy out companies, shuns ailing firms. "We have no time to be doctors," he says. The deal...
...hours until he wins $200,000 in the football pool and can suddenly indulge his wildest fancies. He buys a remote country house, converts its vaulted cellar into a more or less gilded cage, and kidnaps Miranda, a vivacious London art student whose beauty has enraptured him from afar. "He is an empty space designed as a human," his astonished captive confides to her diary, "slow, unimaginative, lifeless, like zinc white...