Word: exertion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Accionista are always working to make themselves superfluous. They exert strong guidance at first by molding the people into a working unit, mobilizing their limited resources, and putting them in contact with other Venezuelans to find materials or technical advice. But when responsible leaders emerge, the Accionista phase themselves out. Already ACCION is managed by Venezuelans and largely staffed by Venezuelans, who are paired off with North American co-workers...
Under both Czar and commissar, Russia's aim in Eastern Europe since the Pan-Slavism of the mid-19th century has been to dilute nationalism and thereby exert its own will over an area that today contains 120 million inhabitants and represents the world's fourth largest industrial complex
Author Iglauer, the wife of The New Yorker Writer Philip Hamburger, flew to Northern Canada, attended the conferences as an observer, learned how to walk in deep snow (bend the knees to exert a forward rather than downward thrust) and got an Eskimo name: Oneekatualeeotae, "The woman who tells the story." She tells it deliberately and unemotionally, but she provides plenty for the reader to feel emotional about...
...limited to working hours. For many a woman with a busy or absent husband, the presentable homosexual is in demand as an escort -witty, pretty, catty, and no problem to keep at arm's length. Rich dowagers often have a permanent traveling court of charming international types who exert influence over what pictures and houses their patronesses buy, what decorators they use, and where they spend which season...
...Kashmir Is Ours." Pakistan eagerly awaits resumption of U.S. military aid, which was halted when the Pakistanis used U.S. weapons against India. While Ayub was hopeful that the U.S. would continue to exert economic pressure on India for a Kashmir compromise, Washington last week promised to 1) help New Delhi avert a famine by accelerating shipment of 1,500,000 tons of grain and 2) stimulate its own food production by granting a $50 million loan for fertilizer...