Word: bases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus last week the U.S. picked up a new frontier state more than twice the size of Texas, a vast treasure chest of iced-in natural resources, a strategic base with frontiers on the Bering Strait, three miles from Asia. The U.S. also picked up in Alaska its first noncontiguous state, and thus added a new dimension-and a new promise-to the Union that had grown from Plymouth Rock and Philadelphia through Appomattox and Omaha Beach to become the bulwark of the free world...
...Oriente mountain fastness to a site near the town of Baire, 42 miles from Bayamo. Moving through the Oriente valleys, rebel columns filtered into half a dozen weakly garrisoned small towns, captured Caimanera (pop. 4,000), just across the bay from the U.S. Guantanamo naval base. In answer, the Cuban high command sent two frigates to shell Caimanera, planes to bomb the rebels wherever they showed themselves. Batista committed few troops. Whenever possible, the beleaguered garrisons pulled back; a few surrendered to the rebels. Though official communiques said little, there were reports that Batista's big Santiago garrison, recently...
...full of power and bounce, symbolized the growth of business in 1954. The economy had a muscular new look; Wall Street had turned from a speculator's hunting ground into a long-term investor's market; the new "people's capitalism" was building a new economic base...
Existentialism is not used directly as a philosophy in helping patients, says May, but serves as a foundation for psychologists to construct a broader base for their science and thus to understand man more intimately. In his theoretical view, this means introducing a new dimension-ontology. But to the patient undergoing treatment, one of the biggest differences is in the therapist's attitude to anxiety and guilt. In older, conventional psychology and psychiatry, says May, there was no place for really fundamental anxiety-about such basic issues as being and non-being-and there was no way to treat...
...hour), which are on a par with those in Italy, almost 20% below wages in Germany, more than 25% below rates in Belgium, France, Britain. But Belgium has a ready rebuttal: higher productivity. Reports the Organization for European Economic Co-Operation: "The Netherlands started from a lower base and has improved productivity more, but it has still not caught up to Belgium...