Word: confirmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Agriculture estimated the 1960 U.S. harvest at 559 million bushels, barely enough to meet anticipated demand. From Red China, the world's second largest producer (after the U.S.), came reports of a decimated soybean crop. Actions of Iron Curtain countries that depend on the Chinese harvest seemed to confirm the rumor: Russia de faulted on bean deliveries to West Germany and Denmark; East Germany began buying beans on free world markets. Even Red China itself began seeking liquid oils from India and South America. Mediterranean countries, notably Spain, reported olive harvests were 10% off, indicating there would...
Podgorny: "I should like to confirm that with examples. In the Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk and Stalino districts, they even cut green corn that could have been picked." Khrushchev: "That's impermissible. Why, it's simply criminal...
...news page is always something new, largely because people have a charming habit of not doing precisely the same thing every day. You call Important Sources to Confirm Anonymous Reports; you wheedle information out of truculent Persons in Authority; you write stark exposes of those whom formerly you had thought innocuous...
...news page is always something new, largely because people have a charming habit of not doing precisely the same thing every day. You call Important Sources to Confirm Anonymous Reports; you wheedle information out of truculent Persons in Authority; you write stark exposes of those whom formerly you had thought innocuous...
...recalls the fact that a good storyteller will draw a face that at first seems dull, then beguile his readers with the history of its lines. Author Bates (The Darling Buds of May) draws such faces in this collection of four novellas, but then spins stories that merely confirm the first impression. It is a little hard to tell why -the prose is reeled off smoothly enough, the characters are credible and their involvements follow sound, conservative lines...