Word: swirl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main purpose of the club is to promote contact between highly intelligent people. The typical meeting in England take place in a restaurant of pub, and often includes the reading of a paper and discussion afterward. Frequently there is no planned program for a meeting, and talk will swirl freely over the beer bottles. The Mensa chapter from Leeds spent a recent weekend cooking and camping out in the Lake Country. But true to the spirit of Mensa, the outing took the form of a conference; and the theme, as their notice expressed it, "will be appropriate to the more...
Despite a swirl of criticism that its punishment was unduly harsh, the U.S. L.T.A. kept a self-righteous silence; there was also no indication whether the suspension would be lifted in time for Ralston to play in the U.S. Davis Cup team's interzone round against India this month. Some tennis fans suspected that the U.S.L.T.A. was desperately trying to make amends for its past laxity in condoning court behavior far worse than Ralston's. But though the U.S. national championships may now be long on manners, with Dennis the Menace gone, the tournament will be shorter than...
Around the person and the position of the President of the U.S. swirl all the problems of the nation and its citizens, their place in the world, their present and their future. Last week these problems afflicted John F. Kennedy, 44, as he spent long hours in the loneliness that only a President can know...
...State's No. 2 man, Bowles was supposed to be goading the department's sluggish bureaucracy into action, leaving Boss Dean Rusk free to follow the global swirl of high policy. But Bowles, used to being top man, never stopped spinning off grand ideas, reshaping the world to his taste. (He kept pushing for his pet Mekong River project in Southeast Asia so hard that even his aides insist he really has only two speeches: the Mekong River speech and the non-Mekong River speech...
...occasion was the private summit conference of the three key Laotian princes, who met amidst a swirl of tubby vacationers at Zurich's Dolder Grand Hotel. At the end of five days of talk, greying Prince Boun Oum, ineffectual Premier of the royal government, sighed wearily: "All I want is tranquillity." Prince Souvanna Phouma, who espouses a doctrine called "neutrality in neutralism" and who is recognized as Premier by the Communists, tolerantly explained: "Boun Oum is a patriot, but he let himself be used by the Americans. He wants to get out of politics. I would like...