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...Canadian Mennonites arrived at the isolated railroad station of San Antonio de Arenales and set to work transforming the prairie. The job was not done easily. Water flowed into their wells from a, huge underground lake, but even with irrigation, wheat, their customary crop, refused to flourish. The revolutionary Pancho Villa still held sway in Chihuahua, and the surrounding hills swarmed with his fierce Villistas, who learned soon that the Mennonite men would not raise their fists in anger. Time after time the Villistas forayed down from the hills to rape the blonde Mennonite women while their men stood...
...production run of a few hundred, it is reckoned, and sharply less after that. The first 1,000 ICBMs and the first three launching bases will be had, it is thought, for about the price of 800 6-47 medium jet bombers. And as the ICBM and its family flourish, so does its accompanying technology, e.g., new cameras so sensitive that they can photograph the creases in a newspaper held ten miles away...
...caretaker of the reconstituted Zion breathed defiance and, with his Old Testament as ever to hand, proclaimed that Israel would fight on more fiercely than before. "I believe in our future," he said in an interview with TIME Correspondent George de Carvalho. "Absolutely. I know we can survive and flourish. We must survive, and we will survive. We have a history of 4,000 years. We were driven out and dispersed about the world for 2,000 years, often hated and persecuted. Our people were tortured and burned at the stake by the thousands. We were expelled from England...
Black markets flourish. Hundreds of men wait for hours in long queues to buy cheap but scarce government-subsidized commodities that they resell at high prices, turning a profit greater than an average day's wage of a worker. Perhaps half of the relief food given Bolivia by the U.S. fetches up as barter for hard currencies in neighboring countries...
Hopper yearned simply to "paint sunlight on the side of a house." But his oils lacked the gusto then in fashion. They showed an almost obsessive fear of the flourish. Xo one wanted them. For a whole decade he practically ceased 'painting them. His empty easel was wasteland, and within himself lay wilderness. His friends heard nothing from him; apparently he had gone under...