Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During this process, the scientists found, mineral deposits such as iron, manganese and copper accumulate in the rift valley as lava-heated water circulates through cracks in the sea-floor rocks. But the depths at which these minerals are located would probably make them too costly to mine, at least for the moment...
...nursing her mother, who was dying of cancer, and doing chores on the family's ten-acre truck farm in Artesia, about 16 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Shortly after her mother died, she was nurse again to her father, who had contracted silicosis as a copper miner. On her own at 17, just as the Depression was beginning, she took on a series of jobs- everything from telephone-switchboard operator to $7-a-day movie extra - to put herself through the University of Southern California...
...South American countries. More than 1 million of the country's 15 million people received their own plots of land or have become members of land-owning cooperatives under the plan. Unlike Salvador Allende Gossens' ill-fated government in Chile, Peru managed to nationalize U.S. petroleum and copper companies without incurring American sanctions. The country, moreover, has enjoyed economic progress under military rule, with an annual growth rate of 5%, although countless Peruvian poor in the Lima slums still subsist outside the economy. Though some militant political parties are banned, Peruvians are allowed to belong to opposition parties...
Tannen's most popular numbers are close-up effects, magic that can be done around coffee or conference tables. "Half and 20 centavo" ($12.50) turns a copper coin into a quarter-while the customer clutches it. "Chop-chop cups," little changed from the days of ancient Egypt, produce spheres from plum to orange size. "Spooky, the spirit handkerchief makes a ghost wander around under an empty little blanket of silk...
...first postwar advocate of nonalignment, urging a "third position" as an alternative to joining the blocs led either by the U.S. or the Soviet Union. He conducted a vociferous anti-U.S. campaign, alleging that there was a "gigantic North American plot" to seize Cuban sugar, Bolivian tin, Chilean copper and Central American bananas. To the dismay of South America's upper classes, Perón encouraged the growth of labor unions all over the continent...