Word: developed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both being built largely by hand labor. By contrast, Bombay boasts a modern, $55 million atomic power plant. Indian nuclear physicists could easily build an atomic bomb in a year to 18 months, but India has no real military use for it. Still, India may well be forced to develop nuclear weapons if only to recapture international prestige, particularly since Red China has begun exploding atomic devices...
TRANSPORTATION. Authorizes $90 million to develop and test highspeed intercity rail service. The idea is to lure travelers back to trains with fast, frequent runs in modern cars...
...where he presented his credentials, and consisted of champagne toasts with President Sukarno, together with a cordial lecture from the Bung on how U.S.-Indonesia relations were at their lowest ebb, all because U.S. policies in Viet Nam and Malaysia were "discouraging the Indonesian people in their wish to develop friendship with the United States." Act II, performed as Green drove back to the U.S. embassy, featured 2,000 Communist students and women chanting "Green, go home," and waving posters saying GET OUT OR WE'LL KICK YOU OUT. By way of epilogue, another 1,000 youths stoned...
...painstaking crafts practiced at home, few achieve the twin goals of practicality and artistry as well as does quilting. The art is nearly as old as the needle. Medieval knights wore quilted clothing under their chain mail, but not until the early 18th century did the English develop quilting to a level of elegant decoration. Yet it was their colonists in America who turned this knack of needlework into a way of life...
...Brecht talked about. To return to the example of the body in the doorway: to have to walk over that actress labels her an effect. It creates a detachment and prevents the building up of a mystery-story suspense as the play begins; Duerrenmatt trusts that the suspense will develop but itself. At the end of the act, another body is on the floor, and the audience again is detached forcibly from the illusions that the actors have created...