Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...given to power to build social facilities, while local authorities could be better represented on corporation boards. The Government could insist that each corporation have a Social Development Office, of equal status to the Architectural office, that would respond to the inhabitants' needs. To help bring the corporation in closer contact to the residents and improve the social balance of the community, the Ministry would insist that corporation executives live in the new towns. Finally, the Government could put several large new towns in each depressed area and at the same time could subsidize the regional building industry...
...Guard to a force of eight combat divisions and 18 brigades, which the Pentagon would fit in more closely with regular Army plans. Most important, it would permit the removal of all 50%-manned units and raise the rest to 90% manning, which would make the Guard all the closer to readiness for combat duty...
...same time, he shaped his own independent and pragmatic brand of guerrilla Marxism, even more violent than Mao Tse-tung's. In contrast with Castro, Che was not afraid to put his theories above politics. In 1965, at a time when Castro was trying to draw closer to Moscow, Che went barnstorming around Africa and Asia, drumming up support for a bloc of small socialist countries to counteract the "imperialism of large socialist countries." After Che's return to Havana, the two revolutionaries had a falling-out and decided to go their separate ways. Che then dropped...
...three years to rebuild his army into a unit of fighting men. Despite their occasional verbal attacks against Israel, the Arabs have also lost their taste for war. Throughout the Arab world, generals who once talked of driving Israel into the sea are now devoting their energies to matters closer to home: how to defend their own capitals...
...popeyed man ogling a barmaid's cleavage, virginity a lacquered ex-stripper trying to look like a wide-eyed schoolgirl caught up in the evil ways of the big city. Usually, there are only random glimpses of breasts and bottoms, although lately the nudies have been edging closer to the limits of pornography with a rash of "sadie-massies" that drag in homosexuality, flagellation, voyeurism, lesbianism and assorted orgies. Among some aficionados of the nudies, the subcategories are known as "roughies" (breasts and violence), "ghoulies" (breasts and monsters), "kinkies" (breasts and whips) and, inspired by the 1963 documentary Mondo...