Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic bond between her and the brothers is intense, and very Asian. In the past, South Viet Nam's women deliberately gave their husbands money to dissipate on opium and prostitutes in order to control them better. During the Indo-China war, thousands of men worked openly for the French, but cases of women collaborators were rare. Today women control much of South Viet Nam's wealth, and in her home a wife is called noi tuong, or "general of the interior." Matriarchal strength is compounded by the traditional Vietnamese view of the family as monolithic and united against...
Some of the works display the influence of African and Asian art, and some seem to combine the thick, blunt lines of Gothic woodcuts with the vi brant tendrils of art nouveau. Com pared to the primitive force of some expressionists, Heckel's forms have been described as "lyrical and refined." But taken alone, their chief characteristic is a searing fury-a world of distorted faces and figures as throbbing as Van Gogh's and as pain-racked as Munch...
Council voted to invite Japan into the club as the first Asian member...
Argentine cattlemen also have designs on Asian and African beef markets, but they are counting on greater U.S. sales for the big breakthrough. The U.S. imports $263 million worth of beef a year, all of it cooked or canned because of rigid laws prohibiting imports of fresh or fresh-frozen beef that might contain the virus of foot-and-mouth disease. Most imported beef goes into hot dogs and canned stews, or is brought in as canned corned beef. Last year Argentina got only $15.3 million of this business (one of its biggest customers: Campbell Soup Co. for its beef...
Vaccination against the Asian '57 strain gives only modest, if any, protection against Asian '62. But volunteers who got a new vaccine developed...