Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Music describes as "better than beating up old ladies with bicycle chains." MODERN LIVING spots another trend in entertainment-the rise in the U.S. of the discotheque, a highbrow version of the juke joint where dancing Americans are doing the Bug, the Wobble, the Push, the Pop.ye, the Barrel and other exercises...
...noon. Judge Brown read their verdict: "We, the jury, find the defendant guilty of murder with malice and assess the penalty at death." Ruby stared at the jury, bit his lip, then scuttled impassively out of the room behind a phalanx of sheriff's officers. But his attorney, barrel-chested Melvin Belli, was thunderstruck. He leaped to his feet, shouting, "Don't worry, Jack! We'll appeal this and take it out of Dallas...
...tract near already-producing wells recently skyrocketed from $1 to $30,000 in a single day's trading, and the value of another tract tripled from $25,000 to $75,000 in three days. Since the big oil production started only recently, royalty income-a standard 36.50 per barrel-is just beginning to build up. Nonetheless, the oil boom has stepped up the county's economic activity: bank deposits have increased 20% in the past six months, service-station business has doubled, and restaurants have quadrupled their take...
Drilling Rights. No one has yet been able to determine the exact size of the Morrow County oil reservoir. So far, the 162 wells are producing 27,000 barrels daily of a good grade of petrochemical crude, for which Ashland Oil & Refining Co. and Pure Oil Co. pay $2.92 per barrel. Experienced oilmen feel, however, that the potential yield of the Morrow County field is being rapidly reduced by the drilling of too many wells in one small area, a practice that diminishes the subterranean gas pressure needed to force out the oil. But just in case the Morrow County...
First came a phalanx of women and children, and behind them the short, silent, barrel-chested men armed with slingshots, rusty rifles, and carrying Tierra o Muerte banners. Once again Peru's restless peasants were trying to chase landowners off their estates. The invasions have been going on for months, and President Fernando Belaúnde Terry has hesitated to intervene. But last week, when 8,000 peasants appeared at 14 haciendas near Cuzco in the southern highlands, troops drove them back in a pitched battle that left 17 dead, 32 wounded on both sides. Within hours, Bela...