Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These were heavy thoughts, sad thoughts to people who had learned long ago to build hope on frail foundations. There were little groups of East Berliners who stood at the gaps in the Wall, watching the Western influx although they expected no visitors. Near the Friedrichstrasse Station, one old woman shook hands with every willing Westerner. "My son fled after it had become a crime to flee," she explained. "So he can't come. Still, it's good to see you." Whispered a grizzled World War I veteran: "Who in a prison isn't pleased when there...
...while Williams gets all the political mileage he can out of anticolonialism, he has not led his infant country of 900,000 people into the leftist camp or driven away business. With a relatively high $500-per-capita annual income, Trinidad could expect no great influx of U.S. or British government aid. But the U.S. came through with a pledge of $30 million over a five-year period for development projects, and has promised to build a road from Port of Spain to the U.S. Chaguaramas Naval Base. So far, despite Trinidad's own slight recession, industrialization is proceeding...
Anxious to decompress Paris with four new suburban universities, the government has bogged down with local officials, who fear an influx of students in areas that lack housing. Meanwhile, builders keep upping their prices...
Hawes says that the Big Three schools were the "gentlemen's quarters" from the end of the Civil War until the end of World War II. After that, a sudden influx of applications caused the three most prestigious colleges to make a choice between "professed commitment to develop intellect and a long rich association with the upper class." The three, "especially Harvard," decided to replace aristocracy with "meritocracy," writes Hawes...
Yevtushenko and others have branded such attitudes "dogmatic." They claim there is room in the Soviet Union for both the influx of foreign art and literature, and also indigenous creativity that does not-necessarily hue to the line of socialist realism. Again, the Party's policies are dictated primarily by political considerations. When Premier Khurshchev decided the publication of the startling novel One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovitch would be a wise political move, he made it. When it appeared the pressure for more intellectual freedom was growing out of hand, Khrushchev summarily squashed the dissident voices...