Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spain's most lucrative foreign producer, Samuel Bronston, the government has gone even farther. Once so overextended that he couldn't pay his tab at Madrid's Castellana Hilton, Bronston has been bailed out with an official two-year moratorium on his debts, plus a fat crude-oil import license. Of course, Bronston has of late been cranking out some patriotic Spanish shorts as a sort...
Recent talks between Presidents Christopher Gbenye, Jomo Kenyatta, Julius Lyere, and Premier Milton Obote marked the beginning of African solidarity and a concerted effort to nip in the bud such crude and blatant neocolonialism in Africa. The fate of Tshombe is clearly discernable. In the next few months Congolese nationalists will be well armed and trained, and it will be extremely difficult for Tshombe and his American, Belgian, and South African mercenaries to hold their...
...China boasts the world's third largest air force, but it would not last long in combat, since the planes are largely Russian castoffs, and the air arm is handicapped by shortages of fuel and spare parts. As for nuclear potential, the Communists exploded a crude device last fall, and may be ready to try another test blast. But a sophisticated weapon-and the means of delivering it-is years away...
...Crude and Organized...
...tactics they used were at the same time crude and organized. Money was spent freely. The owner of a large racetrack buttonholed vacillating legislators, presumably offering rewards (campaign contributions) in return for support of the leaders' candidates--Stanley Steingut, the anti-Wagner leader in Brooklyn, and Jack Bronston of Queens (both, incidentally from New York City, hardly a major concession to upstate interests). One Manhattan legislator reported being offered a campaign contribution and the payment of a primary fight should he switch his allegiance to Steingut. A New York City reformer shifted his support after an organized series of telephone...