Word: shorting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...message: that the U.S. expects its affluent allies to do more toward carrying the free world's burdens. In the long run, the demands on West Germany might well be met in one form or another-to the eventual benefit of the Kennedy Administration. But in the short run, the Administration came in for heavy criticism. The cause was not helped much by Vice President-elect Lyndon Johnson, who, in Paris for a NATO meeting, stressed that the actions of the outgoing Administration "do not necessarily reflect" Kennedy Administration policies...
Although Princess Margaret and her husband, sometime Society Photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, have seldom circulated in London's night life since their marriage, last week's Docklands Settlement Ball, a charity affair long one of Margaret's favorites, proved beyond resistance. Notified on very short notice that the Princess and her party of 20 would be there, the ball's tossers had little time to inform some 500 invited white-tie guests that Tony and his male companions would attend in dinner jackets and no decorations (of which Armstrong-Jones, as it happens, has none...
...field of tacklers for the touchdowns that are the most exciting plays in football. Some top teams-notably the New York Giants and Green Bay Packers-have no such stars. The breakaway back is a specialist in the science of deception, and for the pros, he is in desperately short supply...
...working for $1 per ten-hour day. She was one of several million U.S. migratory farmers who earn an average of only $900 and whose situation is self-perpetuating; only one in 5,000 of their children finishes high school. Said Edward R. Murrow, roaming a field in a short-sleeved sports shirt and quoting one farmer, "We used to own our slaves; now we just rent them...
...Kaufman, another swimmer of Olympic class, is the Crimson's most performers. Depending on the tension, he can handle the backstroke, individual medley, and short and as freestyles...