Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prosecution. Attlee plainly disliked it, but in his thin, waspish voice, he built up a case against the burly Welshman that could not be controverted. Bevan, said his leader, had publicly decried his party's support for the SEATO pact, West German rearmament, and disputed Attlee's endorsement of NATO's nuclear strategy...
...afternoon, tension built up in the city (pop. 1,046,000). Gangs of young hoodlums bought standing-room tickets and packed the Forum galleries. As the disorganized Canadiens began to boot away the game, the mob's mood blackened. Campbell's cocky arrival, just before the first period ended (with Les Canadiens behind, 2-0), touched off a barrage of peanuts, rotten fruit, galoshes and programs. One spectator pushed past Campbell's police guard and walloped him twice across the face...
Today Genevieve Caulfield's matronly figure is a famous one in Bangkok. Her school, built on land that the government gave her in 1949, has six buildings and a special Braille printing press from the Foreign Operations Administration. Taught by a staff of Roman Catholic Salesian sisters and Thai volunteers, her 189 pupils come from all over the land-the children of high government officials and poor shopkeepers, of rich merchants, pedicab drivers and coolies. Eventually, she hopes to build a new $50,000 building, a vocational training center in Bangkok, and an elementary school in northern Chiangmai...
...economics. Humphrey was frankly worried about the effects of the investigation, feared it would affect confidence in the economy as a whole as well as the market. The market, said he, is a meeting place of the ideas of millions of people. "Confidence is a subtle thing. It is built slowly and can be easily and quickly shaken . . . Confidence-or lack of it-has more to do with the conduct of investors . . . than any single thing...
...prices have increased less since 1941 than its competitors'. But why, asked Fulbright, did G.M. not cut its prices when the excess-profits tax expired? Said Curtice: "In effect, we lowered prices because we did not increase the prices with the greatly enhanced value that was built into the cars...