Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contradictions-a revolutionary junta of old-fashioned politicos and new young Nasserite soldiers whose direction no one can yet predict. The new Ministers of Finance and "Guidance" (propaganda), among others, once resigned from Parliament over the government's refusal to nationalize the oil industry. But the rebels seem content for the moment to keep old contracts and, in time, to negotiate (as Nuri wanted to do) for a higher share of the royalties...
burden to bear. The characters are not content to view each other ironically or come to an ironic realization of self; but Guerard himself is ironic about Anthony, and about reality. And the reader has to be somewhat ironic about Guerard...
...content with such modest fame and fortune, two years ago Stan turned his satirist's eye on TV and radio commercials, arrived at a simple notion: Why kid commercials when with a little effort the commercials and the kidding can be wrapped up together? The soft-selling, satirical commercial had been tried before, and except for a few engaging specimens such as Bert and Harry Piel of Piel's Beer, had fallen into limbo. Stan was undeterred. Incorporating himself in Los Angeles as Freberg, Ltd. ("but not very"), he took a Latin motto ("Ars gratia pecuniae...
...rock around it. The rest is rain water that seeps into the ground and turns to steam when it reaches hot rock. The steam contains less than 1% of noncondensable gases, mostly carbon dioxide, and no corrosive minerals. For the time being, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will be content with a 12,500-kw. generator, but much more steam may be available. Wells drilled 30 years ago and abandoned as uneconomic have been spouting steam ever since with no loss of pressure. "Neither we nor anyone else," says McCabe, "know whether we are looking at an area that will produce...
Were they content with the present level of U.S. investment, did they want more, did they want less or none? In every city except Caracas, where U.S. investment had become identified with Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez before his overthrow, the vote for more investment outweighed the have-enoughs and the lessor-nones. As for economic aid, only in Mexico City did a majority feel that the U.S. was sending enough; elsewhere more than 57% thought...