Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soldiers stood guard in the northern Italian town of Seveso, hundreds of villagers last week loaded into their cars or hand-drawn carts the few belongings they were allowed to take, then fled southward. Behind them they left the bodies of scores of animals in a desolated area now sealed off by barbed wire. The cause of the exodus: a cloud of toxic gas caused by an explosion at a chemical plant in Meda, twelve miles north of Milan...
...Saint Laurents, an old and distinguished family from Alsace, settled in the then French territory of Algeria in the 19th century. Yves, who was born in the port city of Oran, still feels drawn to the silky, sun-baked lands of North Africa-no longer to the Algeria of his childhood, now an austere socialist state, but to laissez-faire Morocco. There, at his magnificent Arab-style palace in the ancient fortress city of Marrakech, the designer talked at length last week with TIME Paris Bureau Chief Gregory Wierzynski about his aims, his dreams and his worries. Wierzynski...
Communist nations manage to achieve growth by following detailed output and investment plans drawn up and enforced by a state central planning agency. But the state-owned economies...
...foreign community--housed in a huge complex built by the Soviet government in the '50s for Russian technicians--was gradually drawn into this Cultural Revolution. The Miltons describe the mass meeting and endless discussions of policy that arose as the theoretical dispute deepened. They never make clear what leadership there was within their community to overthrow-one gets the sense from the Miltons that the intial goal of the Cultural Revolution was soon lost, and the game became to call the other factions as many names as came to mind before they did the same...
...Gulf coastal plain. It is one of at least seven distinct regional dialects that are discernible in what Pederson considers to be one of the nation's most linguistically complicated states.* What is more, it differs markedly from dialects in other Southern states. Thus an Alabaman's drawn-out "you all" becomes "yawl" in the more rapid South Georgian speech, and "Ah wouldn't" becomes "Ah woon...