Word: following
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more in the fiscal year ahead, overseas rumblings showing that 1958 is no year to retreat toward isolationism by building higher tariff fences and slashing foreign aid. After pondering the facts, plus the sentiments of the voters back home, many a congressional man in motion switched direction to follow his followers...
...left in Hong Kong (about 1,055 remain in Communist China) are waiting and praying to follow them. After months of citified idleness, they itch to get back to felling trees, building houses, tilling the soil-and to go on worshiping in their own way. "We don't want to travel any more," says Elder Kulikov. "We never want to see Soviet Russia again. All we want is peace and hard work...
...circulation booster, Le Matin's question was an unqualified success. Press and public not only buzzed over the antic notion of an auto trip across Asia and Europe, but within six months five teams were in China, ready to follow the caravan track north and west into the Gobi Desert. There was no need for road maps; there were no roads. There was no sure fuel supply; what was available had been hopefully shipped ahead by camel. But in Peking on the rainy morning of June 10, 1907, one of the roughest car rides since the automobile engine drew...
...kept the trains running on time. After three days, the firemen blew a whistle on the strike. The ailing U.S. railroads (see BUSINESS), which in 1956 withdrew a demand for the right to drop firemen so that the battle could be fought out in Canada, may be expected to follow C.P.R.'s lead when the union contract runs...
...Bastide's ironic message seems to be: a disorder of the spirit, whether worldly, as in the case of the Russian, or religious, as in the case of the Swede, is equally damnable and pathetic. His theme is exile -external and internal -and those who are willing to follow a subtle course of sinuous prose will agree that he has justified his right to preface his book with the statement of the grand exile -Dostoevsky: "All that -all your foreign countries, your famous Europe -is only a delusion, and all of us, living in foreign countries, are only...