Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...papaya and huevos rancheros-fried eggs with spicy tomato sauce on a tortilla, with a side of beans. By 8:30 he is at work, stays at it until 4 p.m., then quits for Mexico City's typically heavy (steak and trimmings), typically drawn-out (two hours) dinner. Back at work at 6 or thereabouts, he works into the evening, then spends an hour or two in a smoking jacket with a detective story or Beethoven on stereophonic hifi. He likes to play canasta and watch fights...
...example is Pemex, Mexico's government oil company. Subsidized Pemex proudly proclaims itself "in the service of the nation," fulfills the proclamation by keeping prices of its products artificially low and supporting a welter of government social services. As a result, it makes little profit to plow back into development and into the establishment of a much-needed petrochemical industry...
...brothers supported the Berlin airlift and U.S. entry into the Korean war, but when Red China intervened in Korea, they urged that the U.S. pull back, suggested that Korea might be "strategically futile," feared that a major effort there would leave Europe exposed. They stood against U.S. intervention in Indo-China in 1954, and this year opposed U.S. action in Lebanon: "The whole Arab world [will be] inflamed against us." Their present position on Berlin is discursive, but on the side of the West's remaining in West Berlin...
...union-in which the national governments would continue to exist for many purposes, but an international federal government representing people, not national governments, would handle the big unsolved problem of keeping the peace. The world is not yet ripe for world government, but that is no excuse to hang back. It is the task of this generation to get it as ready as possible...
...night long the engine had wheezed, supplying erratic power for the lights by which Chinese compositors handset four tabloid-size pages of type. The little engine rested briefly while a workman slipped the power take-off belt from the generator to an ancient flat-bed press. Then it snuffled back to life, to begin the daily press run of 7,000 copies...