Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dismal Catalogue. Above all other obstacles on the road to abundance looms agriculture, the perennial problem child of Soviet society. Though Russia regularly exported big farm surpluses in Czarist times, in 46 years of Communism it has never yet managed to grow enough food or raw materials for its needs. In 1963, after four straight years of disappointing harvests, the farm problem came to a head with a disastrous crop failure that forced Russia's leaders to buy $935 million worth of wheat from the capitalists they vowed to bury...
...crotchety grandma, Billy manufactures absurd complications in his personal life. For a starter, he perpetually fabricates deceptions--apparently for the sheer adventure of extricating himself from the embarrassments which result. A neighbor inquires after his father: Billy unnecessarily invents disease and surgery. As the contradictions pile up, his lies grow more extravagant and improbable...
...Paine home, even before she knew that her husband was implicated, Marina Oswald watched the TV news casts in horror. "What a terrible thing this is to Mrs. Kennedy," she said. "Now the children will have to grow up without a father!" That, of course, was the reaction of millions of people-notably including a balding saloonkeeper, Jack Ruby. "Those poor kids," he moaned when he heard the news...
...grow at all, many European firms are forced to take out expensive and sometimes risky short-term loans, to try to finance growth out of dwindling profit margins and to offer rights at bargain-basement prices just to make their stock attractive. But more often they turn to U.S. investors. The tide of their U.S. borrowings ran so high in the first half of last year that President Kennedy shocked Europe and Wall Street by proposing an "interest equalization tax" on foreign stocks and bonds floated in the U.S. by 22 leading industrial nations; the tax would have the effect...
...chestnut filly, which she rides about the slum. She and our hero fall to stealing things-just for kicks in her case. Their shared criminality lends something special to the times they have a bash. He goes to jail while she bears his child and is then killed. He grows up to semi-respectability (he now only steals on the job) and dourly watches his son grow up as the spoiled grandson of a rich...