Word: developed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million blacks will overwhelm its 3.4 million whites, and it is enforced only through massive and brutal police powers. But to Verwoerd, it is not simply a tool to keep the black man in his place. He sees it as a creative policy intended to allow the Bantu to develop as a true African instead of becoming an imitation white man. "Separation does not envision oppression," he proclaims...
Both Worlds. Verwoerd accepts the responsibility for helping the Bantustans get on their feet. He has already spent millions of dollars to develop their agriculture and improve their roads. He is also encouraging white industrialists to build factories on their borders. That way, he explains, African workers can work for the whites by day, return to their homelands at night, and have the best of both possible worlds...
JACOB LATEINER, a vintage pianist who speaks of wines the way fellow musicians speak of him: "The very great ones need time to develop; they must mature in their own time." See Music...
...skeet shooters who have been at it for five or ten years; every single one has got a severe high-frequency loss." Glorig tested the Marine Band and found that about half of its players had damaged hearing. Hi-fi can be a hazard with earphones, which can easily develop 135 decibels with the volume turned up all the way; but the living-room listener is safe. Ear-fearful citizens can tell when to start worrying by three Glorig rules of thumb. If a noise is loud enough to make people shout into one another's ears...
...flared brilliantly at first, then threatened to become a burnt-out case. He was born in Havana of musical Polish-immigrant parents, won a piano scholarship at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute, then at 18 went to New York in search of "a room some place where I could develop pianistically the way I felt I wanted to." Instead, almost in spite of himself, he appeared as a soloist with the Boston and NBC symphonies, astonished the New York critics with a masterly debut recital at Carnegie Hall, made a few recordings for Columbia, and embarked on a concert career...