Word: graving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protectionist tariffs, duties and subsidies which have made French industry the most coddled in Western Europe. ¶ Agricultural reforms aimed at forcing the peasants to cut back production of uneconomic crops (e.g., wine, sugar beets for alcohol), and farm more efficiently. ¶ Overhaul of the maladministered cradle-to-grave social security program. <¶ An increase in real purchasing power, by linking wages to increased industrial profits. Inefficient plants must go to the wall; workers must be retrained and moved to new locations, especially in southern France where hydroelectric power makes business more attractive than in the worked-over, fought-over...
...most powerful of the climbers was Mario Puchoz, 36, whose friends called him "the Mule." In World War II Puchoz fought on the Russian front-but K-2 proved harsher still. On June 21 the Mule died of pneumonia, at 19,000 feet. He was buried near the grave of U.S. Geologist Arthur Gilkey. who was swept away by an avalanche during the 1953 U.S. assault...
There would be glory enough for all. Back home in Italy, grave old (80) President Einaudi, immersed in a copy of the Economist, dropped the magazine and leaped out of his chair in glee. "It's like a flower in the buttonhole," glowed Turin's La Stampa. In absentia, Professor Desio, a reserve officer in the Alpini, was promoted from captain to major...
...census taken in Yugoslavia early this year showed that 84% of the people still believe in God after nine years of life under Communism. So reported a U.S. newsman from Belgrade last week. At a time of grave political and military defeats for the West, this figure marks a significant spiritual victory. Westerners who complain that they lack an "ideology" to oppose Communism overlook Christianity...
...Castile is the country which gave Spain its greatest queen, Isabella, its ideal knight, the Cid, and its mystic saint, St. Theresa of Avila. Christopher Columbus died there, broken and disappointed. Castilians, who manage to scratch a living from the harsh earth, are a tough, grave and proud people. They speak the purest Spanish of Spain. The climate is "nine months of winter, three of hell." The land is a windswept steppe, almost a desert. "The most magnificent monotony in the whole world," says Sacheverell Sitwell. It has been said of Spain that it seems more a part of Africa...