Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Estate. In Velika Plana, Yugoslavia, a tombstone in the village cemetery bears the inscription: "Here rests Zdravko Paunovic with his first wife Stanojka. The tombstone is erected by his third wife Dolka, from the money of his second wife, Zivkat...
...acres of desert into residential lots of sunshine. But the Phoenix area alone is already using more water than its reservoirs collect, has to "mine" 1,300,000 acre feet of water annually out of its lowered underground water table. Though the new residential areas use only one-third as much water as the crops they replace, the further spread of homes into the desert will leave a water problem that can be solved only by wresting more of the Colorado River away from California (which also has a water problem) or by man's long-term dream...
...down, two thirds of the audience applauded perfunctorily, and the other third, including his host Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, applauded not at all. Rising to reply, in a manner that was not as hostile as his words, Verwoerd declared: "We have problems enough in South Africa without your coming to add to them. We do not see eye to eye" on racial matters, he went on; what is most necessary today is "to be just to the white man of Africa." This time, the applause was loud and clear...
...religion, he gently reminded them that it was he who had translated their own Koran into Burmese. And while campaigners enthusiastically shrieked epithets at each other as in the old days ("Epileptic!" "Mange-covered leper!"), U Nu took the line that a victory for his opponents "might produce a third World...
...dank and dark a sitdown strike as even militant or desperate men could survive, and soon about one-third of the strikers, worried about their families or tired of living like moles, got out by emergency exits. Wives and children of the remaining strikers gathered at the pithead to talk by phone to their men below on Mine Level 13. Spoleto's Archbishop Raffaele Mario Radossi, using the same phone, implored the strikers to surface and negotiate. Worried company officials struggled to keep the pumps operating and the ventilating system working so that the men would not fall victim...