Word: put
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Last year 6,000 German troops, joining U.S. Seventh Army veterans in "Winter-shield" maneuvers along the Danube, put on a dazzling show. In one swift swoop, a German armored unit, theoretically knocked out a battalion of Seventh Army tankers and infantrymen...
...answer the 15 questions listed on the "simplified" application form, which asks the traveler to give his nationality, complexion, race and ethnic classification. One bewildered applicant answered race with "skiing and bobsledding." A French student came closer by stating that he belonged to the Latin race. The consular aide put him straight, telling him that he was a Caucasian. "I said I'd never heard of the Cauca sian race," reports the student, "but they told me that was beside the point. I asked what ethnic classification meant. They said, 'Well, you should know your own ethnic class...
...foreign applicant looks in any way untrustworthy or insincere, they can run him through the ordeal of Form FS-257AF, which begins by ominously barring from U.S. shores anyone who has been insane, had a criminal background or who "will engage in immoral sexual acts." The victim must put down not only his name but also all the "other names" by which he has been known, and list in order each street address, town, province and country in which he has resided for six months or more since his 16th birthday. He must, of course, tell whether...
...Russian offer was little more than a tempting bit of cheese on the treadle of a Communist trap. A smelter would give employment to only 100 workers. It would force Bolivia to import large quantities of costly British coke to refine its relatively low-grade (30%) ore. It would put Bolivia in competition with the international tin cartel, thousands of expensive miles from potential markets. Bolivia would have to accept platoons of Soviet "technicians" and go through with the first Russo-Bolivian exchange of diplomats in history...
...Kezar Stadium last week stocky, swarthy Vince Lombardi, late of Brooklyn, made himself the idol of the state of Wisconsin. With Halfback Paul Hornung scoring every point, Coach Lombardi's Green Bay Packers won a 13-0 victory over the San Francisco Forty-Niners. The win put the surprising Packers in first place in the National Football League's Western Conference, set them up for a finish fight with 1959's champion Baltimore Colts...