Word: exploited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made it so unprofitable to raise cattle and grain that bread and beef were in short supply. He dickered desperately for a $125 million loan from the U.S., violated the nationalism that he himself had urged by trying to swing a deal with Standard Oil of California to exploit Argentine...
...royal effort is also most successful: the King of Siam, it would appear, has a considerable talent for writing a luscious tune, and the Krokodiloes exploit it with their most melodious croons. Or almost their most melodious: the boys have also included their celebrated "Blah" (a gentle moaning jibe at movie songs...
...result, over the years, Americans have grown complacent about the theoretical basis of their technological progress. By neglecting basic search, we are attempting a very advised shortcut. "In short, we have mortgaged the future of science in our eagerness to exploit its past," says Piel. He knows that technology is no "miracle...
...much for lament. Director Sarah Caldwell saw how much mime matters in this drama; conductor Lazla Halasz perceived the continual recurrence of counterpoint and fashioned a clear texture to exploit the score's intricate dove-tailing of motifs. Meistersinger does not employ Wagner's half-mystical interweaving of words and orchestration. Rather, it makes the orchestra a commentator on the drama's events. This Halasz recognized, and gave the orchestra the subtleties of dynamics and tempo demanded by its place in the opera...
...next exploit, a lawsuit charging the prison commissioners with illegal arrest, was a convenient cover for the most audacious escape in policemen's memory. He got outside accomplices to smuggle him a padlock in the Law Courts, went to the toilet with two guards. When they removed his handcuffs outside. Alfie bundled them into the lavatory, snapped the padlock onto screw eyes inserted on the door by his pals, and vanished in crowded Fleet Street. Though he was recaptured at the airport five hours later. Hinds slipped out of Chelmsford Prison in less than a year and returned...