Word: exploitatively
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...while De Bisschop settled down to the quiet life as French consul in Honolulu. But Thor Heyerdahl's exploit in sailing Kon-Tiki from Peru to Tahiti set him off again. Determined to reverse Heyerdahl's course, De Bisschop pushed off from Tahiti on a similar raft, traveled 5,000 miles, only to have the raft break up under him in a tremendous gale 840 miles from the coast of Chile. Besides the adventure of it, De Bisschop hoped to prove that Polynesian seafarers had colonized all the Pacific from Indonesia to South America. Last April he left...
...life, Felice Orsini was one of Europe's most wanted men, trailing from country to country, spying, mounting fantastic plots and making sporadic forays into his homeland. In London, where he was rapturously welcomed, Orsini let his vanity drive him to his last, most hare-brained exploit-an attempt on the life of France's Emperor Napoleon III. It was a crazy choice, because the Emperor had declared himself ready to fight for the cause of Italian independence. But, Orsini argued, if only Napoleon were removed, all other thrones in Europe would topple...
...reprobate politicians in Paris. These watching men leaped in swiftly in Algiers to guide events their way, but if they could impel events they could not with certainty control them. France settled down to an uneasy testing time of men in action and in reaction. Men eager to exploit the situation were fearful that a misstep might bring to power those they opposed, or a continuing irresolution might bring on what no true Frenchman wanted, the trials of a civil...
...whodunit and then tails off into the world of Germanic near mysticism. I'm Not Stiller is already a European bestseller and has been hailed as a masterpiece; perhaps it is more accurate to describe it as the first novel since World War II that has tried to exploit the rich, mixed inheritance handed down by Kafka, Koestler and Mann...
...white to be slaves." ¶"We would be glad to hear Mr. Eisenhower suggest to the Soviet Union that it join hands with the Americans to fight imperialism. Mr. Eisenhower could not do so because America also is now a state which wishes to have colonies, to oppress and exploit...