Word: doles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grown and seeks regional markets, she finds trade with many of her Asian neighbors proscribed by U.S. edict. Although a charter member of SEATO, she finds American troops pouring into Southeast Asia without her consultation or approval. Worst of all, she finds herself dependent upon an annual AID dole which may be snatched away if she does the slightest thing naughty. Pakistan thus represents the case of the fledgling country brought to the brink of maturity by American beneficence but which the State Department continues to treat as a helpless underdeveloped nation...
Forgotten Bash. Corsages wilted, par ty gowns wrinkled, coiffures uncoiffed. The silence in the galleries grew more and more ominous; the menfolk below had plainly forgotten all about Lyndon's bash. All the Republicans could think about was new amendments to the bill. For example, Kansas' Bob Dole introduced an amendment to give the First Lady rather than the Secretary of Commerce the power to enforce the beautification bill. It got nowhere. Nor did a raft of other G.O.P. amendments. The more the Democrats tried to choke off the beautification debate, the angrier the opposition became...
With a sharp decline in revenue from non-Communist trade, Cuba has become even more dependent on Russia's million-dollar-a-day dole and bonus of five million dollars annually for military expenditures. Castro, a hard-headed nationalist, doesn't want to remain perpetually dependent on Russian aid; thus he plows a good deal of the capital into the development of an infrastructure to lay the base for future production...
Castro survives only because of a $500 million, Soviet-supplied military machine and a subsistence-level economic dole amounting to about...
...first wild wave of hope under the New Deal had receded." It was a thin time, and Kazin recalls that "there were so many of us" who depended on review assignments to live that Editor Malcolm Cowley "would sell the books there was no space to review and dole out the proceeds among the more desperate cases haunting...