Word: hardships
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...price drop in metals will help U.S. manufacturers cut their costs. But it will work a corresponding hardship in the producer nations. In Malaya, where tin is one of the main props of the economy, 54 tin mines have shut down in the last few months, and more are on the verge of closing. Turkey is also feeling the pinch. For more than two years, Turkey has sold more than two-thirds of its output of chromite (used to harden steel) to the U.S. The dollars it earned have helped to pay for the capital-works program which is lifting...
...proclaimed a grandiose offer of $57 million emergency foodstuffs for their zone-burying as deeply as possible the fact that East Germany would be expected to pay for it with manufactured goods. Thus the East German Communists contradicted their own self-righteous insistence that there was neither hunger nor hardship in their half of Germany...
...youngster along as crew-will take up where it left off last spring. Corny, who would "sail pumpkin seeds if I could find competition," sees nothing unusual about his year-round sailing compulsion. To Corny Shields, as to most other sailors, the sport is the thing, no matter what hardship is involved. Hardship? "Why," says Corny, "I keep so warm sailing that little dinghy that most of the time I don't even bother to wear winter underwear...
...over in the end with honesty -and his dogged hope of victory. He did not underestimate his army. Revolutionary soldiers might desert, but they often returned to fight again. They might break before British bayonets, but they would regroup and fight the next day. Properly led, they endured incredible hardship, often without pay, without proper clothing, without proper food...
...held lightly enough to give way when further investigation demands--in short, the spirit of a liberal education--is far superior to the haphazardness of uncritical belief. Such a spirit can only refine values and reconcile them to facts, whereas blind acceptance only leads to intellectual waste and personal hardship...