Word: alls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But even if all the U.S.'s anticipated food surplus for 1959 was distributed, it would amount to the equivalent of about two teacups of rice every 17 days for each of the world's undernourished people. A food dole would alleviate but would not remedy the poverty...
It is here, as President Eisenhower and others have emphasized, that the West can best help. By supplying others with capital, the West may be able to help them achieve more speedily what it took Japan 90 years to accomplish-the transition from a purely agricultural nation to an industrial...
There had been times when Culture-master Malraux came dangerously close to satire in describing the accomplishments of France-"the most powerful lighthouse in the world, the largest hangar for airplanes, the most modern goods station, the highest road over a dam . . ." And sometimes it was hard to talk about...
Malraux also decreed: let there be circuses-and staged the most dazzling Bastille Day celebration France had ever seen. In fact, never since Napoleon had government and culture so complemented each other. When Giraudoux's Electre opened, Paris critics were officially reminded that a French head of state has...
Though phrased to sound like an acceptance, the rebel reply amounted to a rejection of De Gaulle's terms-which specified that the negotiations be confined to arrangements for a ceasefire, and should not include discussion of Algeria's political future. But what gave the rebel announcement an...