Word: builded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev's planners promise 22 million more housing units (a mere beginning to Russia's housing problems, even if successful), 5.6 times more refrigerators, 4.6 times more TV sets by 1962. But Khrushchev expects to build only 25% more automobiles than the paltry 100,000 his factories produced last year...
...consuls and do-gooders from foreign lands seemed willing to help only the young and able-"a miner or a ditchdigger. We have a widow with nine children. No one ever came for her." Pire's idea was to build special "European villages" for the D.P.s-not a separate community, a potential ghetto, but "a neighborhood glued onto a city." Often he ran into ugly resistance: one Swiss village refused to allow him to start a home for aged refugees because it did not want to enlarge its cemetery; a German burgomaster got a letter threatening dire consequences should...
...being of infinite worth, who deserves all our attention, all our love, whatever his nationality, his religion, his learning, his poverty, his moral misery. The other idea is. so to speak, the certainty of the deep unity of the human race. Newton said. 'Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.' " For Nobel Laureate Pire. there are still many bridges to be built for the 200,000 European refugees that his heart has as yet been unable to reach...
This is as Curley would have had it. It is, in fact, a view that he wished to lure from the realm of story-telling to that of contractual relationships between public officials and the people they hire to build bridges, dig tunnels, bulldoze beaches,, and supply the flowers on funerals and other state occasions. It was to the everlasting disgrace of the Boston Finance Committee that they failed to accept this application...
Adams' soccer team, riding the crest of 12 straight shutouts in intramural play, will face Peirson with Dale Bower in the goal. A strong defense allows the aggregation to build up an early lead and sit tight for the rest of the contest...