Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marshall over 34 higher-ranking officers to Chief of Staff and four-star rank, handed him the job of getting an unprepared nation ready for war. Battling divided public opinion and an isolationist Congress, Marshall stubbornly, coldly, turned a sparsely trained Army of about 400,000 into a sharp, hard-fighting, brilliantly organized global weapon that numbered more than...
...still far from the wonderland of the yearbooks. At Vladivostok, citizens flooded him with letters of complaint about inadequate housing and consumer goods shortages. To his open anger, Khrushchev also discovered that the local commissars had dressed up their normally bare shopwindows especially for his visit. Last week, hard on the heels of Nikita's arrival in Moscow, a decree went out for a 42% increase in the value of consumer goods output by 1961. Among the items to be stepped up: television sets, sewing machines, refrigerators, bicycles, electric irons-and lampshades "to match the best foreign samples...
Mild as it was, the new plan pleased no one. Said Group Captain Leslie Briggs, hard-shell leader of the far-right, pure-white United Party: "This is dishonest and dangerous-we would have no right to stop a convicted Mau Mau gangster farming next door to us." With equal vehemence, African Nationalist Leader Tom Mboya denounced the proposals as falling far short of the sweeping redistribution of White Highlands acreage demanded by Africans. Even members of the moderate New Kenya Party, led by Michael Blundell, Kenya's most progressive white politician, raised the outcry that the plan...
Bringing their habits and values with them, the immigrant Irish, Germans, Italians and Jews became strangers in a new land, suffered from the cultural conflict, found it hard, at first, to escape from slums. Now this is the Puerto Rican plight. Says Fitzpatrick: "The poverty of Puerto Ricans, their language handicap, their lack of sophistication about mainland city life, leave them, at this moment, particularly exposed to exploitation. The things that gave a man or woman dignity and honor in a Puerto Rican village are greeted with ridicule in New York...
...event, the Dartmouth offense will be up for this game, and the varsity's line must be at its best. A hard-charging Crimson line would probably be an even bigger help to the pass defense than the revamped backfield. The varsity forward will should be able to give the Crimson backs plenty of running room against an Indian line whose performance to date has been undistinguished...