Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most effective speeches, Wilson spoke of "a Britain full of life and vigor and achievement" after his five years in office. He promised better times to come and compared the Tories to poor-mouthing "Victorian undertakers welcoming a wet winter and the promise of a full churchyard." Labor delegates, who have sat on their hands after some of Harold's sorrier speeches, gave him a two-minute standing ovation, and even the independent Times of London acknowledged his speech as "one of the best in recent years by any party leader...
...tories all but ignore the tragedy. Only a simple stone marks the grass-covered site, and it says simply that "victims of fascism" lie below. The Jewish identity of the victims was not even mentioned at the anniversary ceremonies that the state grudgingly began conducting last year, the better to control the groups of Jewish mourners who had been gathering annually at Babi...
...Nothing better illustrates the tenor of the trial than the following exchange, in which the prosecutor "proved" that anti-Semitism "cannot exist in our country...
Plainly, it would be a mistake to let the momentum of aid slip further. Over the past few years, 41 poor countries have managed to achieve yearly growth rates of 2% or better in per-capita income, despite sharp population increases. Pearson's goal is a growth rate of 6% throughout the next decade, and "self-sustaining" expansion for most of the underdeveloped countries by the year 2000. If the report's proposed aid increases are adopted, and if population growth can be held down-two enormous ifs -they might make it. If not, Pearson's "village...
...growing visibly restless in the course of a lavish briefing. Sensing their discomfort, General Creighton Abrams broke in to start talking informally about the war; although he said nothing new, his familiarity with the reality of war brought the meeting to life. The lesson is that personal communication is better than canned chatter...