Word: limits
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...cool. But there was a strain in his tired voice, and his words, usually oblique and professional, this time were plain and full of passion. The Congo, said Hammarskjold with chilling precision, is "a question of peace or war, and when saying peace or war, I do not limit my perspective to the Congo." Bluntly he portioned out blame to Belgium for dragging its feet, to the Congo for its impatience, and strongly criticized governments-unnamed-which threatened to take matters into their own hands by "breaking away from the U.N. force and pursuing a unilateral policy." When Russia...
...Belgian businessman, George Saveniers, ran off a curve in a Cooper, killed himself and a spectator and injured 19 others. Italy's Gianpaolo Volpini, builder of one of the hottest Formula Junior cars, says bluntly that drivers are courting suicide when they push the car beyond its theoretical limit of no m.p.h. And the Federation Franfaise des Sports had some words of misgiving: "Formula Junior cars were meant to be something between glorified hot-rods and disenchanted Ferraris. But now the class has grown from the race of the weekend amateur to a fulltime sport every bit as competitive...
Unless substantial amounts of housing can be located, the Summer School conceivably could be forced to limit its enrollment. The entire problem of admission procedure poses, according to Crooks "one of the most serious problems I face...
...whites and Asians. With something for everybody in Macleod's package, bargaining began. In eleven brisk days, agreement was reached on a new legislative council in which the Africans would have 20 of the 33 seats, although a franchise based on income, property and literacy would limit the electoral roll to only 100,000 Africans. In return, Banda agreed that for the time being the executive council should have only an advisory role, leaving the British Governor...
...find devastating, Che guides Cuba with icy calculation, vast competence, high intelligence and a perceptive sense of humor. Despite the fact that Fidel Castro has had him declared a "native-born Cuban," Che knows that Cubans still regard him as a foreigner, and has so far realistically set the limit of his personal ambition accordingly. Even his name (pronounced Chay) comes from the Argentine equivalent...