Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Formosa. When Clerk Tsai Yung-ting awoke at 2 a.m., the rain had been falling for hours on the sleeping coastal village of Houlung. Too late, he rushed down to the sea wall-to find the dike watchmen asleep and the water pouring through. By the time he got back to rouse the sleeping village, the torrent was already waisthigh. That night Tsai and 29 others of Houlung's 100 people died...
...marriage contractor in Cairo, seeing his business opportunities changing, was professionally all for it. Said he: "Like any merchandise, when it is exhibited properly, it finds a buyer. When girls sit back in their homes, nobody sees them...
...arms, sent three boatloads of weapons. When the conspirators set a target date for an uprising in Havana, Castro called a halt. The top 40 plotters were summoned to Morgan's home for a "final briefing." Police poured in the doors. Castro himself stepped out of a back room. "What were you going to be minister of?" he sneered at an ashen-faced Havana contractor. Castro's cops jailed 10,000 Cubans, most of them apparently unconnected with the plot, and uncovered tons of hidden arms...
...years after that, the generals, the bankers and Liberals gave Ecuador "chocolate prosperity," based on rich cacao plantations. Paris became the mecca of the planters, while back home the nation and the people lost ground, literally, to grabby neighbors: 26,000 sq. mi. to Brazil in 1904; 62,000 sq. mi. to Colombia in 1916; 79,000 sq. mi. to Peru in 1942, at gunpoint. By 1949, the nation had tried 15 constitutions, 44 presidents, only 10 of whom lasted out full terms...
...Paris orphan plumbed new depths during the years leading up to World War II. Circulation fell below 15,000; the paper, dependent on tourist advertising, shamelessly painted a false picture of Europe so as not to lose it. It applauded Mussolini's rape of Ethiopia, turned its back on Hitler's invasion of Austria to editorialize on mothers-in-law. But the paper always had a smattering of good newsmen, e.g., Elliot Paul, Eric Sevareid, CBS Newscaster Ned Calmer, all of whom apprenticed there. And when a veteran staffer, Eric Hawkins, was appointed managing editor...