Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whom they wish to curse. I find that custom barbaric. My aim was to try to stop the spreading of bad examples by ridiculing what I considered grotesque customs. I am stunned to see my well-intended purpose maliciously distorted by ill-intended elements who use my words to fit a false, ugly, obsolete and well-organized anti-Catholic propaganda which tries to present the Vietnamese people as an innocent Buddhist majority under a cruel dictatorship of Catholic minority overwhelmed by a fanatic Inquisition mood symbolized...
...early land-reforming presidents, Plutarco Elias Calles, left office in 1928 disillusioned. "Happiness of the peasants," he said, "cannot be assured by giving them a patch of land, if they lack preparation and the necessary elements to cultivate it." On uneconomic small plots carved out of land fit only for cattle-grazing or large-scale farming, peasants often fall hopelessly in debt or become victims of land speculators. Those who still use the wooden stick plows of their grandfathers can scarcely scratch out a living on plots that average only twelve acres. On remaining private farms with prime land...
Reasonable questions, to be sure, but they simply came too late in the day-as did Salazar's offer to Africans of "the closest and most friendly cooperation, if they find it useful." Otherwise, Portugal would defend its territories "to the limit of our resources, if they think fit to turn their threats into acts of war." As for the U.N., which two weeks earlier called anew for curtailment of arms to Portugal, he saw the "massive entry" of Afro-Asian states as having distorted the world organization into a threat to peace. And in a bitter...
...major problem in establishing a chair of this sort, Dean Ford said, was fitting it into the departmental structure. He noted that it did not really fit into the Classics Department, nor the Balkans or Near Eastern studies...
...full and extensive" debate promised by various senators on the recently negotiated limited nuclear test ban treaty. Men like Henry Jackson will perform a valuable service if they closely question Administration officials to make sure United States security will not be endangered. And perhaps the Administration will see fit to release additional information on our detection capabilities so the layman can better evaluate our nuclear strategy...