Word: affectivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...danger of a serious incident centers around Guantanamo, the last major U.S. holding in Cuba. The U.S. made it clear that the closedown of its embassy does not affect the treaty under which it holds unlimited lease to the naval base. Castro is sure to provoke incidents there. As a first step, the U.S. expects Castro to cut off the base's water supply, piped in from a river five miles away on the Cuban side of the fence. Stored supplies of water have been increased to 11 million gallons, enough to last 20 days. And in a matter...
...letter became a relic, stiff with blood and grime, and passed from hand to hand in a cabalistic pouch, it also became "a covenant signed between the Europeans and the Africans -no similar document of this same relationship is likely to be drawn up again." Many writers affect to understand Africa; Author Dinesen accepts and respects its opacities ("All roots demand darkness"). She draws a memorable portrait of Farah, her face-conscious Somali majordomo, "unfailingly loyal, a cheetah noiselessly following me about at a distance of five feet, or a falcon holding onto my finger with strong talons and turning...
...legitimate. This year the number of people criminally indicted by SEC for false or misleading stock information has increased 38%. The New York Stock Exchange, concerned over the flood of inside tips on corporate developments, last week issued a warning reminder to listed companies that any information likely to affect a stock's price-whether about dividends, new products or new management-should be made public at once...
...station to the snow-blanketed street to hail himself a taxi, nobody recognized him as one of the nation's most important citizens, a man who on Jan. 20 would be assuming a public office with such awesome responsibilities that the virtues or shortcomings of its incumbent could affect the destinies of the world. He was Dean Rusk, 51, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, and he was on his way home from Palm Beach, Fla., where, on a sunlit porch two days before, President-elect John F. Kennedy had announced his appointment as the next Secretary of State...
...finished consumer goods-bought to satisfy the European's growing taste for a higher standard of living. "For the first time in decades," says Secretary of Commerce Frederick Mueller, "there is discretionary buying in Europe. Even if the industrial activity in Europe lessens slightly, it should not greatly affect our opportunities to sell there...