Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hollered at predictably anti-Administration speeches from such Democrats as Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson (who announced his plan for a legislative-executive commission on unemployment to report in 60 days) and Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas (President Eisenhower, "the kindly Kansan, has unwittingly become the captive of hard-faced men"). The U.A.W.'s Reuther, in a high-pitched, rhythmic singsong? pulled out all the stops, deriding Eisenhower for playing golf and quail hunting in Georgia, and conjuring up the memory of the good old days of World War II, when everybody was working overtime: "If we can have...
...British prosperity in 1959 is still a near thing, maintained only by rigid economic controls, and it could be destroyed at almost any moment by a shift in international trade patterns. To the hard-pressed British taxpayer, the $4.2 billion a year spent on defense represents capital that, if the cold war ended, Britain could devote to the investment on which its economic future depends...
...camp in India and painfully made his way to asylum in Lhasa. The debate that followed between the abbot and the Dalai Lama was a genuine contest of wits, says Harrer, in which the God-King was "never for a moment disconcerted," while the venerable abbot "was hard put to hold...
...tung's new China, listened patiently to lectures on Marxism and Leninism, saw factories, dams, parades. Back in Tibet, Red technicians set to work. Some 3,000 Tibetan students were shipped off to school in Red China. But things went wrong from the start. The hard-driving Red cadres filled with Communist zeal made little impression on the individualistic Tibetans, who felt that the inner perfection of a man's soul was more important than an asphalt surface on a road. Sighed the Dalai Lama: "China and Tibet are like fire and wood...
...through the cars' side windows. When they raced onward, the royal limousine took a commanding lead. Purred Sex Kitten Bardot, who first met the princess at a command film performance two years ago: "I don't know if she knew me, but she looked at me very hard...