Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fadistas cry out in voices quavering with anguish. Against a back ground of weeping guitars, they sing of sin and love gone wrong, of wasted lives and impending doom. Fado means destiny, and its baleful laments are more than the fatalistic Portuguese can bear: old men weep and women grow faint, all revelling in the joys of suffering...
...African Group Chairman Arthur Smith recalls: "It was so convenient for some people to stigmatize the company." U.A.C. absorbed some severe losses, notably in the Congo and Ghana, but proved to be more adaptable than an African chameleon. Rather than cut and run, it decided to stay and grow along with a yearning market. During the terrifying upheavals in the Congo, Unilever men opened new plantations even while existing ones were being overrun by the Simbas. The company also opened up more opportunities for local people. Since 1956 it has increased its proportion of black African managers from...
...urge you to remember that Americans often grow impatient when they cannot see light at the end of the tunnel -when policies do not overnight usher in a new order. But politics is not magic. And when some of our fellow citizens despair of the tedium and time necessary to bring change-as, for example, in Viet Nam today-they are forgetting our own history...
...Soviets intend to use much of the irrigated acreage for wheat. No other large-scale wheat producer uses irrigation, for the simple reason that the method is so costly that other nations prefer to grow more profitable crops and buy the wheat abroad. But the Soviet Union is apparently so set on self-sufficiency that it is willing to pay almost any price for home-grown grain...
...billion. The higher figure is probably the more accurate and, if so, Eurodollars have increased by about 10% in a year. As long as the U.S. balance-of-payments deficit continues, and European interest rates remain higher than in the U.S., the E$ funds are likely to grow...