Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money doled from the U.S. till last week, to an odd set of customers, still had the same general purpose as the weapon once known to Europeans as "the cavalry of St. George."* But on both sides of the cold war, foreign aid was now devoted to far more complex purposes...
...Burke and brother James-had adopted Cuban citizenship, thus saving mightily in taxes on their multimillion-dollar Cuban holdings. When Batista seized power in 1952, he appointed Hedges a member of his advisory council. Last year a Batista government bank bought a money-losing Hedges enterprise-a rayon-chemical complex in Matanzas province-and leased it back with the proviso that Hedges need pay no taxes for 30 years...
...films next spring, nine months of painstaking effort will have gone into them. Sample: frequency of the vibration of the atoms within the molecules is calculated on computers, scaled down to slow motion. Says enthusiastic, new-fledged Film Maker Hildebrand: "We're dealing with complex motions and time effects-different molecules doing different things. We explain each molecule before we combine it into the molecule complex. The motion picture is the ideal medium...
...Enola Gay bore northeast while Navyman Parsons worked, now straddling Little Boy, now lying on his back, now wriggling on his belly. He checked and closed Little Boy's complex circuits, tested the barometric switches. At 0330 the Enola Gay passed beyond Tinian's radio range...
...Arabs are determined to be lord and master of their homeland, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arabian Gulf," shrilled Shukairy. "There must be a rushing consent to Arab aspirations before they are achieved without consent. This psychoneurotic complex of hating President Nasser should be extracted from Western thinking." The ferocity of his language might have been intended to convey verbal loyalty to Nasser and Arab nationalism while concealing Saudi Arabia's unwillingness to pool its $300 million-a-year income with its Arab brothers. As he put it, "Oil, our oil, is not a political commodity of international...