Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great Leap. With patience, some economists believe, Communist China could have been very largely self-sufficient by about 1967. But Mao, with his rigid dogmatism, was impatient. In 1957, he launched his Great Leap Forward-a single heroic burst that would overnight transform China into a modern nation. The targets were preposterous-e.g., a 33% annual increase in industrial production-and so were the demands made on the people. "In those days, the workers never went home," a factory manager told Austrian Journalist Hugo Portisch. "They stayed at their machines twelve, 14, 16 or 20 hours at a time...
...Rainmaker and the Politician- is a particularly American phenomenon. To sell his goods, he must sell us belief in their validity. And since we in America have been ever striving to establish "a more perfect union," since our whole system of government pretends to be based on one great burst of philosophizing in the middle of 1787, and since we have no sense of our past history by which to assess our progress, the Salesman has been most successful when pandering to our dreams and illusions. But, now, he's trying the truth. Superficially, the truth only concerns Vietnam...
...echelons of MIGs thundered overhead and cannon boomed out a 21-gun salute, North Viet Nam's Premier Pham Van Dong burst into tears. So did Nguyen Huu Tho, leader of the Viet Cong, as well as many of the 100,000 spectators assembled last week in Hanoi's Ba Dinh (Independence) Square for the funeral of Ho Chi Minh. "It was as if Dong had lost his father," said Jean Sainteny, France's official representative at the ceremonies and a veteran of many years in Indochina. "Suddenly he must have realized that he had to assume...
...were brutally introduced by group leaders in discussion sessions to bring out basic attitudes. One example: "Almost without exception, black teachers are inferior to white teachers." The 70 leaders cajoled and insulted the participants in an effort to push them into understanding, or at least into receptivity. One woman burst into tears under the pressure. Another at first wilted under an explosive attack and then threatened to resign from her teaching job. A few older teachers walked...
...custom to warn his students well in advance of the hour exam that they were in for a " toughie. " As the day approached, he would start hinting at some of the incredibly intricate questions students should prepare for, and with one lecture to go he would-in a burst of charity-pass out a list of relevant items. The actual exam then consisted of a single question, typically " The Eighteenth Century began in 1669. Discuss...