Word: fecund
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much of the Philippines' violence rises from the chasm of poverty that separates rich and poor. Though the 7,100 islands of the republic are rich in natural resources (gold and copper on Luzon, iron on Samar, chromite on Mindanao) and fecund with such crops as tobacco, sugar, corn and rice, average Filipino income is only $120 a year. Fully 6% of the population is unemployed, and a third of all Filipinos work only three months a year. Manila's wealthy suburb of Forbes Park glitters with swimming pools, but children starve to death regularly in the shack...
...Fecund Frenchwomen. The boat ride tired De Gaulle, and when he returned to Paris, a scheduled Cabinet meeting was put off 24 hours. But after a day's rest, he not only presided over the meeting but played host to King Mahendra of Nepal. Later in the week, De Gaulle received a delegation of 14 mothers who have given his "100 Million Frenchmen" campaign a boost by bearing big families, also welcomed a papal legate on hand to help celebrate the 800th anniversary of the Cathedral of Notre Dame...
...presidential palace, where he had been hiding since the French put him back in power, Autocrat Mba promised a thorough investigation. But it took no board of inquiry to conclude that Mba and the French have only themselves to blame for allowing "sterile agitation" to blossom into fecund antigovernment, anti-French feeling. It may be a long time before French troops dare pull out of Gabon...
...naturalistic sculpture and countless drawings. Of a work called Woman, he wrote: "As a vision sculptural, she began to move, vigorously, robustly, walking, alert, lightly, radiating sex and soul." Of La Montagne, he wrote: "Mountains neither jump nor walk, but have fertile rolling pastures, broad and soft as fecund breasts...
Time of Testing. Within a year or two, the new economy will face a time of testing: the growing up of all those postwar babies who were born in fecund 1946 and are coming of age to enter the labor force (only 40% will go on to college). "Already our unemployment is concentrated among the 18-and i g-year-olds, and a tidal wave of them will hit us in 1964 and 1965," says Martin Gainsbrugh, chief economist of the National Industrial Conference Board. The number of new workers entering the labor force will soar from...