Word: absently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back in Tokyo, Kishi had a run-in with yet another Minister of Commerce. While the minister was absent on a tour of the Dutch East Indies, Kishi and one of his former Manchurian aides drew up a drastic plan to increase bureaucratic control of Japanese industry and to draft into the factories some 250,000 women, ranging from housewives and geisha girls to prostitutes and the actresses of the Takarazuka Girls Opera-an outfit that was owned by Kishi's boss. The Commerce Minister raced back to Tokyo and denounced the plan as "sheer Communism!" Kishi again resigned...
...South America, Ike will touch down in Brazil (Feb. 23-26), Argentina (Feb. 26-29), Chile (Feb. 29-March 2) and Uruguay (March 2-3). Noticeably absent from the itinerary are Peru and Venezuela, where Communist-led mobs heckled and attacked Vice President Nixon on his tour (TIME, May 19, 1958 et seq.); the White House diplomatically pointed out that a visit to Peru would also entail a stop-off in neighboring Ecuador, where the capital of Quito is too high (9.350 ft. above sea level) for a man with the President's heart history...
...extent of the Communist threat varies widely in Africa, and is often exaggerated. But even if the widespread Soviet and Chinese interest were absent, the United States still should have a broad sympathy and friendship for the people of Africa as they seek freedom. This country can make an effective contribution to the development of African freedom if it will make the effort. Necessarily that effort will involve money, and we may hope the next Administration will recognize this. But more than money, it will require imagination, energy, and manpower. Technical aid, trained advisers, and a friendly interest are more...
...control is often a complex of emotional, moral, philosophical and economic attitudes. In Latin America, the Philippines, South Viet Nam and Ceylon, the Roman Catholic prohibition of contraception is felt. India still echoes to the sexual dictum of Gandhi that "union is a crime when desire for progeny is absent." In Pakistan the standard male reaction to birth control is "a man must have children or he is not a man" throughout the Moslem world, there is the belief that children are "a gift of Allah"; and in many places, a barren woman is an object of pity. In lands...
...child of five and under, she learned, does not recognize death as an irreversible fact; he sees it as a sort of sleep or a gradual or temporary state. The dead resemble the absent, in that the child does not see them. From six to nine years, most children personify death ("Carries off bad children. Catches them and takes them away"). To one child of eight, death was so real that he thought it left footprints. And to many, death is like a Halloween figure, all skeleton, or with its skeleton outside and visible...