Word: exploiter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Party Council, and 34 out of 42 new members at large, are supporters of Fanfani's Democratic Initiative. These victories might have alarmed the party's conservative old guard, and even brought on the first tremors of a schism, if Fanfani had made any importunate move to exploit his strength...
Many more such outlandish craft will be built to exploit the fabulous treasure of oil, gas and sulphur that lies under the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. Bringing it up and to shore will be hard, risky and expensive, but the oilmen, though strangers to the sea, are the most supremely confident of confident Americans...
...declared goal was staggering-to make over 32 million acres of land, and to plow, sow and harvest 18 to 20 million tons of grain there within only two years; 2) the Kremlin was willing to rob its established farmlands of machinery and its factories of manpower to exploit the virgin lands. Taking from other sectors of the economy to build the new enterprise brought to mind Russian Satirist Krylov's fable of Trishka, the poor simpleton who patched a hole in the elbow of his coat by cutting a piece of cloth from the cuff, patched...
...certainty that Giap would move his 40,000-man regular striking force against the delta before or during the summer rains: he had taken bitter losses at Dienbienphu and might need more time to recover. But the French generals knew Giap and feared that he would exploit the stalemate at Geneva by grabbing fast, even with weakened forces, for all of Indo-China...
...well picked over on dry land. But under the surface of the Mediterranean, says Archeologist Philippe Diolé, lie untold sunken deposits of classical history and art. In a new book, 4,000 Years Under the Sea (Messner; $4.50), Diolé tells how diving archeologists are just beginning to exploit the submarine digging grounds...