Word: grossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dismay of Cuba's city dwellers, the Castro revolution has been strictly a rural phenomenon. More than 30% of Cuba's gross national product is reinvested in the earth to the planned detriment of the city dweller. As a result, more than half of the 50,000 Cubans fleeing annually are Habaneros. They have taken with them most of the liveliness that once made Havana the "Paris of the Caribbean...
Some Republicans were dismayed by Nixon's advice. Most, however, agreed with his political reasoning. Asked Iowa Republican H. R. Gross: "Is the obligation of the United States to wet-nurse the rest of the world...
Even without a surcharge, the economy in some ways had been tapering off on its own. Retail sales have leveled off since March, and inventories have gone up as a result. For the second quarter of 1968, the gross national product-the sum total of everything produced in the U.S.-rose $19.6 billion rather than the $20 billion to $22 billion that had been estimated. Government economists, believing that the economy is malleable, intend to take it from there. Once the surtax has cooled off the inflationary situation, Washington experts intend to heat up the economy again...
...prevalent as in the area of grey humor, the pale imitation of black humor. Kookiness serves for characterization, and unrelated zany episodes for story. The Do-Gooders exemplifies this genre, along with A Bad Man by Stanley Elkin and A Fine Madness by Elliott Baker. Manhattan-born Alfred Gross man, 41, who has written three other novels in the same vein, has been praised for his facility with a special, caviar kind of black humor that only the hip can hope to fully understand. Actually, The Do-Gooders is a variation of Terry Southern's amoral, completely antisocial Magic...
...injunction barring any university action against them. Instead, last week they got a dressing down from Judge Marvin Frankel. Like an exasperated teacher correcting careless students back on the campus, the former Columbia law professor dismissed the legal arguments as "a whole series of errors . . . equivocal legalisms . . . sprawling verbosities . . . gross flaws . . . baroque rhetoric...