Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Federal Government back into a thing of this kind, this kind of function, when we are on a curve of rising prosperity." To which Mitchell's allies reply: the soundest way to head off pump-priming pressures is to strengthen unemployment protection until employment rides along up the curve...
Kings go forth with gifts, and for the people of Corsica, the first stop on the exile road, Mohammed brought along a very special one-"as a witness of the sincere friendship which His Majesty entertains for General de Gaulle." Shortly before the royal plane landed, it radioed Bastia airport that aboard the plane was a local boy, Ignace Cacciaguerra. a French army sergeant who had been captured by Moroccan tribesmen two years ago. The King's men negotiated for months to win the sergeant's release from the tribesmen. Summoned hastily, Cacciaguerra's mother...
...Catholic Church to contraceptive measures, seems to be veering about. The newspaper Indian Express editorialized that it was time to recognize that even Mahatma Gandhi, who also opposed birth control, was not infallible: "As in some other matters where the Mahatma's outlook was rigid and doctrinaire, time, along with an oppressive sense of the realities, has induced a change." A fervent Gandhian disciple, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru added his persuasive voice by acknowledging that "a tremendous crisis might arise in the world with an indefinitely growing population." Noting that people in Europe and the Americas were "getting frightened...
...along with such talk, he has an engaging ability to kid himself, and his concerns. Once he saw a nature movie about a herd of brown deer with white markings in whose midst appeared a mutation-a white deer with brown markings. "You see," purred the narrator, "he's playing right along with the other deer and they don't even seem to notice the difference." Said Belafonte with a laugh loud enough for the whole theater to hear: "Boy, they're well integrated." In his playful moods, Belafonte is also fond of fabricating stories about himself...
...Paris. Then the trio took off on a "25,000-mile" talent hunt for authentic West African dancers, organized contests, persuaded ritual dancers that performing publicly outside Africa would not profane secret rites. To keep the flavor authentic, Fodeba insisted that costumes be of native materials, even brought along a highly convincing fire eater...