Word: focused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...copper-rich central African nation of Zambia is the focus of Japan's most intense trading drive. Last month a twelve-man Zambian trade delegation was swept through Tokyo with a platoon of geishas, even treated to a reception with the Emperor. The Zambians took away their first trade pact with Japan and promises of investments in a fertilizer plant, textile mill, transistor radio assembly plant, steel mill and luxury hotel. For its part, Zambia lifted all restrictions on Japanese imports...
...University and the Kennedy family announced the fund-raising drive for the Kennedy Library, and members of the Class of 1965 ran the national student drive to raise money for the library. The Memorial Drive underpasses became the issue of the day. If nothing else, the sycamores provided a focus for the spring riot; and the MDC police cooperated by bringing out their police dogs, and the riot lasted until...
McDivitt: "All right, I've taken a lot, but they're not very good. You're in too close for most of them. I finally put the focus down to about eight feet...
British Columnist Malcolm Muggeridge is also appalled. While admitting that Bond's "instant appeal to attractive women, his dash and daring and smartness combined with toughness, make him every inch a hero of our time," he also notes that "insofar as one can focus on so shadowy and unreal a character, he is utterly despicable: obsequious to his superiors, pretentious in his tastes, callous and brutal in his ways, with strong undertones of sadism, and an unspeakable cad in his relations with women, toward whom sexual appetite represents the only approach...
That struck a responsive chord, and Africa's former French dependencies played it repeatedly, with particular focus on the futile firebrand of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. Charging that Nkrumah has bankrupted his nation for his own political ends, Upper Volta's President Maurice Yameogo drew cheers with his acid observation that "in Ghana you have to stand in line nowadays to buy a box of matches." Should Nkrumah lead a Pan-African government? Chortled Yameogo: "How can he expect to extend that to the rest of Africa when he has lost the allegiance of his own people...