Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liked what they found, if not exactly for all the right reasons. One girl, who explains that she had owned only one tattered pair of panties before, became ecstatic over being able to buy five pairs out of the $75 charge account given each volunteer to supplement her Government-issue wardrobe. The girls will receive an additional $65 allowance for winter clothing later in the year. Recruits also get $30 a month pocket money and $50 a month put aside for when they leave the Job Corps. Out of this $50, the trainees may send up to $25 home...
...fascinated by violence, dreaming both of power and of justice, intellectuals overwhelmingly (if not unanimously) embraced Marxism as the hope of the future. They were reacting against the baffling evils of World War I and fascism; perhaps the modern intellectual's main difficulty is that he cannot really account for evil in human affairs...
...first detailed account of this process is in Ward 7, a remarkable novel by Valeriy Tarsis, which was smuggled out of Russia last year and has now been published in London. It is at once a searing indictment of the Communist system and an eloquent witness to the fervor for freedom that nearly 50 years of Marxist indoctrination have not been able to extinguish...
...landing on the moon's surface." No further explanation was offered, but most non-Soviet experts suspected that Lunik V's retrorockets had not ignited, and that the spacecraft had crashed on the moon while traveling at 6,000 m.p.h. Such a failure to slow down would account neatly for the early impact...
Once solely a shipping and overseas-trading firm (founded by Grace's grandfather in 1854), Grace has become one of the largest U.S. chemical companies. Since 1952, when Peter first plunged Grace into chemicals, its annual sales have risen from $315 million to $815 million; chemicals now account for more than 62% of the total. Last week at the company's annual meeting in Chicago, Peter Grace predicted that chemicals would be the major factor in pushing 1965's sales close to $1 billion...