Word: cements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state." Many panic-stricken East Germans who bought up groceries and clothing in fear of war were called on the carpet for hoarding. There was still a trickle of refugees sneaking out to the West. One mason who was at work on the wall itself leapfrogged over the cement blocks and fled into West Berlin when his day's labor was done. Less fortunate was the man who jumped into a Spree River inlet near the old Reichstag and tried to swim the 100 yards to safety; border guards riddled him with bullets before he got halfway across...
...third of the 20,000 prisoners arrested in the early days of the military takeover, including 2,560 of the 3,098 political prisoners. Pak also announced the outlines of a five-year plan to raise the gross national product 46.3% by development of Korea's power, cement, coal, steel, oil refining and fertilizer industries...
...smothers native enterprise, the company has begun to cut back on its retail operations and expand its role as a wholesale supplier to African retailers. Getting in on the drive toward local industrialization, United Africa has invested, almost always as a minority stockholder, in African plants producing everything from cement to cosmetics. In Ghana, when the government decided to take over the buying and selling of palm products, United Africa willingly gave up the business-and became the government's agent...
Above all, he should not feel called upon to sacrifice all his most deeply imbedded cultural tastes and traits in the name of intercultural good will. After all, nobody has suggested that the Peace Corps member, in an effort to cement intercultural relations, should enter into negotiations for the sale of his sister. No one could expect him to violate in this way his deepest values and beliefs. For the same reason, nobody should suggest that he be required beyond the limits of necessity to give up the habits and tastes of a lifetime of eating, drinking, working and playing...
Thin Luck. One converted World War II bomber was busy hauling supplies- cement, rice and nails-for a village self-help program that the U.S. hoped would win some friends. Old C-475 ferried arms, food, cigarettes and beer that floated down by orange and white parachutes wherever a royal army contingent could be spotted through the clouds. Luck ran out for one U.S. embassy C-47 on an observation mission, which ran into a hail of ground fire and crashed. The U.S. gave seven crew members up for dead, the first U.S. casualties of the Laotian war. The only...