Word: impendingness
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When a downtrodden and previously feudalistic China emerged from revolution four years later, the communist victors drew ambitious plans to meet the impending task of industrialization and modernization. They would attempt to make a backward agrarian country a peer to the world's scientifically advanced nations and to create for...
ENGLAND MADE ME is extracted-painfully-from a 1935 Graham Greene novel about moral and political decadence in Germany before World War II. The excellent Peter Finch appears as a brassbound industrialist named Krogh who traffics with the Nazis to sustain and increase his fortune. Michael York, who apparently wandered...
Sir / So the U.S. knew of the impending Chilean coup before it happened but did nothing [Oct. 1]. I marvel that we spent tens of billions to fight for "democracy" in Viet Nam, but wouldn't spend 10? for a warning phone call to the democratically elected President of...
The University's impending decision about Black Rock--where Con Ed plans to build a pumped storage power plant on New York's Hudson River--has taken on increasing importance in the light of recent events. Legal door after legal door has slammed shut on environmentalist efforts to block the...
It is all very simple. You pay your $1.50 and walk through the 50-ft. metal gateway poles hung with red-and-blue banners. You leave behind inflation, traffic jams, Watergate and the impending struggle of the autumn harvest. Ahead of you, the Ferris wheel arcs into the blue sky...