Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...imprisoned indefinitely without trial. Ghanaians have been urged to spy "with patriotic vigilance" on their neighbors and to report any sign of disloyalty to the government. Brooking no opposition, Nkrumah sacked the moderate members of his Cabinet, replaced them with extremists who are encouraging Ghana's steady drift to the left. Into Ghana have poured scores of Russians and Red Chinese technicians to aid in development projects throughout the country...
Unwelcome Cloud. Even if the blast gave no local fallout, it surely created some fission products that stayed below the stratosphere to drift with the winds of the lower atmosphere until rain or snow brought them down. By studying their charts, U.S. meteorologists figured that this cloud of tropospheric fallout moved southward into Russia, then swung eastward to cross Siberia. At week's end, it was heading across to the U.S. (see map) near Oregon and Idaho where rain was expected to wash some of its radioactive debris to earth...
...warned that the interests of these new nations "are similar to those of the USSR in many cases," and noted a growing tendency by the Afro-Asian nations to drift leftward and operate as a block...
...forceless father, a smothering mother, an adolescence strangled with apron strings. Fears of women, fumbles at sex. A slow, sick drift of disappointed desire that bears him insidiously back to the dear, safe days when he was a pretty little boy among pretty little girls who adored him and made no demands. But now he is no longer a little boy, and when he tries to behave like one, the games get stranger and stranger, till one day he finds himself alone in the woods with a ten-year-old girl, breathing hard and gliding close to the terrified child...
...that Adenauer appears to be fading out of the picture, Shirer said, West Germany will surely drift closer to the Soviet Union. Both Erhard and Strauss would deal with Russia and East Germany. And, although he expressed some admiration for Erhard, Shirer claimed that Strauss is potentially dangerous- "a little Bismark perhaps...