Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...renowned as his daring was Mac's ever-bubbling, extroversive ebullience. Buzzing along over the jungle, he would sing a raucous couplet into his radio for the benefit of ground walkie-talkies in the area...
...coup that landed a soldier, General Humberto Castello Branco, in the presidential palace, a hardline, right-wing military faction known as the linha dura has been busily purging state and local governments of every official whom they suspect of Communist sympathies or simple malfeasance-in many cases without benefit of judicial procedure. Last week the hard-liners were dealt a hard blow. It came from none other than ex-General Castello Branco, whose regime after twelve months seems confident of success and determined to restore civilian rule...
Dedijer then stated that conspiratorial interpretation of revolutions is in correct because it does not recognize that a revolution "is made for the benefit of the people who begin and join...
...holder of the conspiratorial theory, he explained, would view a revolution as working not for the benefit of the people involved, but for the benefit of some foreign country trying to topple an enemy government...
...fact, a good part of the cast kept doing things I wouldn't have suspected they'd be up to. Actors with no apparent sense of timing turned out to be marching to a distant crucial drum. Some sooty cripple who would have been booed down at a PTA benefit stuck up her face and said her little pice at, peek-a-boo, just the moment a touch of farce...