Word: cues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undeveloped oil reserves. But when Vargas, on a recent visit to the Bahia oilfield, plunged his fingers into Brazilian oil, and held them up for his followers to applaud (see cut), Brazil's production was still a mere trickle of 85,000 barrels a day. Congress, taking its cue from the President, is doing its nationalist best to delay the day when Brazil will be self-sufficient in oil. For eight months it has bottled up a bill that will allow foreign companies to join the government in oil development...
...weakness of Head Against the Wall is that nowhere does its author show the causes of Arthur's collapse. At one or two points Novelist Bazin hints that his hero is a persecuted rebel, and the publisher, taking up this cue, describes Arthur as "a young man victimized by a degenerate environment." On the evidence of the novel, however, Arthur victimizes society a bit more than society victimizes...
...living room, a portrait of Lou Henry Hoover gazes down on her husband's pipes, his blue and white porcelain and his solemn books. Three women secretaries wait on him. He seldom dictates answers to his mountainous correspondence, merely pencils a line across a letter which gives the cue as to what he wants the answer to be. He recently got a postcard which carried the arresting note: "Watch for a message which will change the face of the world." Hoover scribbled on it: "Watch for this...
...organized Vespa clubs, races and contests, thinks that "the best way to fight Communism in this country is to give each worker a scooter, so he will have his own transportation, have something valuable of his own, and have a stake in the principle of private property." Taking their cue from this, many industrialists have bought Vespas on a reduced-price fleet plan, sold them to employees by paycheck deductions. In Piaggio's own plant, 60% of the 3,500 workers who once depended on bicycles or their feet for their transportation now own scooters...
...wrong can a man be? Even as Ai penned this sentence, his boss, Chien Chun-jui, Vice Minister of Education, was taking his cue from Mao Tse-tung and beginning to lambaste China's university professors for their alleged sins. The boss's purpose should have been clear to an old brainwasher like Ai: in the course of converting China's famed old universities into trade schools for agricultural and industrial technicians, the Reds must bully the faculties into complete acceptance of Communist doctrine...