Word: clearest
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...Clearest symptom of the chaos was the sudden and steep decline in China's exports. In 1958 Peking had begun to invade the markets of Southeast Asia with a flood of inexpensive bicycles, textiles, rice. By underselling Japan, Red China increased its exports to Singapore and Malaya by 23%, nearly doubled its trade with Thailand and Ceylon. But by this spring Red China was unable to fill even longstanding orders. At the annual trade fair in Canton last May, export sales were down 56% from the previous year...
Strong Evidence. The election was the strongest, clearest evidence of responsible moderation that Arkansas has seen since its crisis began. Orval Faubus, hurrying back to Little Rock, tried to pass it off as having nothing to do with the integration issue. It meant, said he. merely that Little Rock's citizens believe in job security for teachers. But a Southern paper, the Louisville Courier-Journal, said it more accurately: "It is significant for all the South in showing that even in a community as emotion-tossed as Little Rock, a majority of the voters in time will prefer...
...populace participating. Dassin's evocation of this atmosphere is the final triumph of the film. He has isolated a place which seems to belong at once to antiquity and to the modern world, and found it inhabited with people of all shades of passion and knowledge, from the clearest white to the darkest black. A tremendously serious movie, it is also full of wise and ridiculous humor. Surely there is no better sign than this of Dassin's success...
...Dwight Eisenhower, symbolizing the dangerous early days when he flew to Europe as NATO's first Supreme Commander, who brought the alliance's purpose into clearest focus with the greatest simplicity. "Look at the hand," he said, raising his hand, fanning his fingers in a gesture that many of his old NATO officers well remembered. "Each finger is not of itself a very good instrument for either defense or offense, but close it in a fist and it can become a very formidable weapon of defense . . . The need, as we reach for a lasting peace with justice...
Died. Kenneth Powers Williams, 71, military historian, longtime (1909-58) teacher of mathematics at Indiana University; author of the multi-volume Lincoln Finds a General (TIME, Jan. 2, 1950; Nov. 10, 1952), probably the soundest clearest history of the Northern Command in the Civil War ever written; of cancer; in Bloomington...