Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Economist pleaded with upper-crust Tories to stop grumbling that workers "are getting above their station." Instead, "the modern Conservative should be one who looks up at the television aerials sprouting above the working-class homes of England, who looks down on the housewives' tight slacks on the back of motorcycles . . . and who sees great poetry in them. For this is what the deproletarianisation of British society means...
...stone-and-plaster houses and shops. Its men have found work locally as agricultural laborers or herdsmen. In showcase Sahel, the greatest fear is being turned out of the new town. Says one resettled Moslem: "Provided the army stays to run our schools and hospital, we will never go back...
...trying to sneak over from the Malayan jungles. The British, who will retain control of Singapore's defenses and foreign affairs, are resigned to the political necessity of releasing the imprisoned P.A.P. Communist-liners. But Singapore is no longer so fearful of their oratory and intrigue: news from "back home" about the People's communes and the shock of Tibet have done much to diminish Peking's prestige among overseas Chinese...
...side in the island's revolution, pushed a little too hard last week. Tempers flared, raising the possibility of a split. Then the Red leaders realized the folly of alienating Castro before they could fully control him, told their membership that attacking the revolution is still "inexpedient," got back to the task of making the revolution theirs...
Despite the fact that they get from France more than they pay back in the form of sugar, rum, coffee and bananas, the islanders are now demanding an ever greater share of the central government's money. They complain that the minimum wages still hang below mainland standards, fret about the population surge that is adding 16,000 people a year to Martinique's current 265,000 (on 385 sq. mi.) and Guadeloupe's 250,000 (on 588 sq. mi.). A potential income source is tourism; the islands offer balmy beaches, inexpensive French champagne and perfume...