Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spate of difficulties, the U.S. is not reaching for panic buttons. Nobody doubts U.S. primacy as a world power-though there is doubt whether that power is being used effectively. Nobody is really worried, either, that a big war is imminent, or even that a brush-fire war will grow out of last week's problems. But the problem still must be dealt with, as Lyndon Johnson sees only too well in grappling with his hot-spotted map. "We cannot treat each of these troubles as an isolated crisis in itself," he told a visitor last week, "but only...
...benefit of the U.S.-supported South Vietnamese. Next was Russia's turn: "The Kremlin counted on keeping China in its power and, by this, dominating Asia. But such illusions were dissipated" as a conflict arose between "Russia, which holds and which keeps, and China, which needs to grow and to take...
Though some corporate executives still complain that profit margins are not all that they should be, the flood of earnings clearly marked the end of the profit squeeze that U.S. industry has suffered for nearly a decade. Reason: already high consumer demand continued to grow strongly, while companies, aided by new computers, automation and sharper cost control, were able to hold down production costs. Says General Motors' Chairman Frederic Donner: "Rising industrial production, employment and consumer income engendered a high level of consumer and business confidence. 1963 was a good year for the economy, a fine year...
...Thou relationship with Nature and its secret beauties. Time was when her wispy passage cheered motorists wending disconsolately to work, when her stringy hair and unpainted lips lent gay decoration to the Cambridge Common. The Radcliffe Bus Service has sealed her decline. Glutted with uncalled-for comfort, she shall grow fat and superficial--too soon to occupy her place among the matrons of America...
...next day, when an old clerk dies, Domenico is promoted and his destiny is sealed. As his father exclaims, too joyfully, "He has a job for the rest of his life." He will grow old with the company...