Word: areas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sullivan gave his support to Vellucci's order, stating that he felt "a private developer can come up with a much better offer." Charging Harvard with attempting a "land grab," he said, "I know they are fast trying to put me out of business in my district," the area in the neighborhood of Dunster House and the new Leverett towers...
...Egyptians, was accepted as a Moslem and was able to make his famed journey safely to Timbuktu. After him other Frenchmen came, and eventually, by the "rules of the game,"*laid down by the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 for spreading civilization throughout darkest Africa, French hegemony over the area was recognized. The "scramble for Africa" was on, and there was little the Africans could do about...
...enemy chief and became a slave so that his captive mother could be released. Like the Biblical Joseph, he rose to head the enemy tribe, fought the French until 1898 when he was captured. The French swarmed over French West and French Equatorial Africa and Madagascar-an area 14 times the size of France. But the legend lived on of the warrior Samory, whom Sekou Toure claims as his grandfather...
...Roughly, the area south of latitude 20° north. * One of the "rules" was that no nation could set up a "sphere of influence" in Africa unless it had effectively occupied the area. Some immediate results: the Germans rushed into the Cameroons, driving the British merchants out; the British hastily set up the Oil Rivers Protectorate on the Niger Delta to keep the Germans out; the French sent garrisons into West Africa, occupied Conakry...
Recent Western visitors to the Peking area saw cotton blowing away unharvested while the local peasantry concentrated on rebuilding Peking's showy Tien An Men Square. The great campaign to produce steel and pig iron in homemade blast furnaces created even more widespread labor shortages. Factories producing textiles for export were obliged to cut out a shift in order to free workers to stoke the ubiquitous furnaces...