Word: import
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Declines & Disappointments. The Communists try to swap their raw commodities for sophisticated capitalist technology, but recently they have been forced by crop failures to import fewer Western machines and more Western food. For both Russia and Communist China the biggest import from the West is grain. China now takes more than 50% of Australia's wheat exports and 10% of Canada's; last week it agreed to buy about another $100 million worth of grain from Canada. Most of the U.S.'s $340 million worth of exports to the East last year was in the form...
...that the process thinkers-such as Cobb, Union's Daniel Day Williams and Schubert Ogden of Perkins School of Theology-may be on the verge of an exciting event: the articulation of a U.S.-bred philosophic theology that might eventually develop into an alternative to that ubiquitous Teutonic import, existentialism...
...FRANCE. U.S. officials report full cooperation from the police and the courts, but France's Napoleonic Code is filled with dusty laws that may trip the unwary. A tourist's U.S. drugs may be confiscated, for example, because the law bans the import of prescription drugs available in France. Frenchmen who have become U.S. citizens are in trouble if they revisit France:* they can be jailed for draft dodging, forced to serve 18 months in the army. In Gaullist France, all tourists are well advised to repress political opinions. Under an 1881 law, insulting heads of state, even...
...everyone knows that the tousled blonde with the lynx eyes who emerged slowly and nearly nude from the pasteboard cake at the bachelor party in How to Murder Your Wife is that 27-year-old Italian import, Virna Lisi. Her co-star Jack Lemmon has said: "She's a star. She has it, a real regality"; critics have agreed, and the public is purring contentedly. About the only people not in on the secret are her fellow Romans, who are only now getting to see the film in Italy...
...past the astonishing universality, of the mother tongue. It may be enough just to discover why, from some hillbilly throats, it escapes as hit-that was how the English said it in Chaucer's time. Or that the perfectly good Anglo-Saxon verb clyppan yielded to a Norman import (embracen) and survives in English today only in the humble paper clip...