Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first shy before crowds, he became their adored leader, gained the power to select the targets of the mob. to attract more people to join it, to manufacture its slogans, to brandish its raw, brutish power, to intimidate his adversaries. Yet if he were to abate that fury or convert it into a disciplined, responsible community, it would abandon him-the role would seek another hero. In the pungent Arabian Nights image: "He is a man born of a horse who has become the rider of the horse," and he could be unseated...
...profits into better mills, Lobo wants to modernize the industry, step up production, sell sugar on the open market without quotas or controls. Other sugar-men fear that heavier production would force prices down. But Lobo argues that the industry should find new uses for sugar, thus attract new industry into Cuba's one-commodity economy. Thanks largely to his campaign, several plants are now being built in Cuba to produce such sugar byproducts as wallboard, newsprint and plastics...
Conservative Catholics frowned; rank and file Protestants, reluctant to attract attention, kept silent; wealthy Jews retreated. But Father Cucchetti, flanked by Rabbi Schlesinger and Methodist Minister Adam Sosa, did not lose zeal. "The three musketeers," as supporters tagged them, worked on their congregations. The rabbi persuaded two of his richest members to finance the movement; the Protestant pastor got backing from the U.S. National Conference of Christians and Jews; the priest managed to keep stodgy superiors from getting involved...
WEST GERMANY will remove last restrictions on investment by foreigners to attract new capital. German yields, especially in bonds, often are almost double those...
...need for international standards was recognized 50 years ago but did not attract worldwide attention until World War II. In 1947, shortly after the International Organization of Standardization was formed, doctors discovered that an order of Swedish hypodermic needles rushed to epidemic-stricken Egypt did not fit U.S. syringes in use there. Needles to fit eventually arrived-but not until hundreds of victims had died of cholera. Since then, the organization, working through scores of national standards groups, has approved 58 worldwide standards for everything from musical pitch to the abrasion resistance of rubber...