Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cubans whose loyalty to Castro was questioned-into makeshift concentration camps in the Havana Sports Palace and a downtown hotel. Across the island, members of Castro's Rebel Youth, some as young as 14, began patrolling city and village streets at night, encouraged to act as they saw fit if they saw anything suspicious. "Defense committees" drew up lists of persons in their districts who might be considered "enemies" and might be done away with if trouble broke...
...encouraging them to switch to more efficient, labor-saving machinery. To fight inflation and help bolster sagging exports, the chancellor proposed that Parliament drop the system of fixing excise and purchase taxes by law, leave it to the government to manipulate the rates within limits as it sees fit, raising the taxes when the domestic market is absorbing too many goods better exported, lowering them when the home economy needs a bit of a boost...
Many men have vainly speculated on what sort of punishment could conceivably fit the enormity of Eichmann's crime. Yet it remained last week for Eichmann himself to come up with a suggestion that no one else had thought of. As the court sat awed and uneasy, Eichmann's musing, tape-recorded voice declared: "I am prepared to atone personally for the terrible things that occurred. I cannot plead mercy because I am not deserving of it. Perhaps I ought to hang myself in public in order that all the anti-Semites in the world should have...
...Council has been weighed in the balances and found wanting. The most obvious answer is that this cumbersome, anachronistic organization must be destroyed, and some more efficient organization established in its place. The idea of a House Committee Council seems to fit the role best. This plan would have a representative from each of the nine House committees along with a representative of the Freshman Council. This form of organization would have two important advantages. First, it would be more representative and secondly, it would be much closer to the problems, such as parietal hours, which spring...
Eagle Scout. After all that, it was no surprise that Major Gagarin's authorized biography read as if it had been manufactured to fit the occasion. What was released to a curious world was a wordperfect picture of the "new Soviet man" -it might well have described a U.S. Eagle Scout from Iowa. Yuri was born on a collective farm near the small town of Gzhatsk, 100 miles west of Moscow. The young boy shone in the local school, and after completing the sixth grade, he was sent to manual training school in a Moscow suburb. He graduated...