Word: curely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such men look to France as their second country. These days, Senghor lives abroad several months of the year on the farm in Normandy where his French wife was born. President Hamani Diori of Niger takes an annual trip to France for a "cure" in the baths at Vichy. When the son of the President of the Ivory Coast married the niece of the President of Togo, all the chiefs of the French-speaking African states got airline tickets with their invitations. The wedding was, of course, in Paris...
...Oxford don, Sebastian (Dirk Bogarde) is whacking bad at human relations but so cracking good at puzzle solving that the government employs him to find a cure for the common code used by enemy agents. When hiring new girls for his staff, Sebastian confronts them with questions like "How many words can you make from thorough!" And "What is Naitsabes spelled backward?" A Queeg in mufti, he compulsively fingers a rubber ball as he orders his overworked underlings to "switch your gorgeous minds to overdrive." From time to time, Sebastian mutters antiheroic cliches to himself, like...
...holds; and have enabled this nation to be a potential force for world peace and progress. But it is equally clear that a forced emphasis on those endeavors is not going to solve the problems which beset the future. Only rarely is the cause of a condition also its cure...
...what Stephens calls "an opportunity for a student to examine his thoughts about political problems" is not used by most of the over 300 members of the Republican club. Dissension alone brings interest to a large club of this type. And dissension alone can cure the member apathy that plagues any college political organization, whether it be Democratic, Republican or the Radcliffe Government Organization. And now, there just doesn't seem to be anything left for the YR's to fight about...
...holiday in Britain, fully one-half of the workers in many areas stayed home. And, in a country-by-country poll of attitudes toward world problems, the British put the establishment of a 30-hour week as a goal second only to finding a cure for cancer...