Word: ingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Unbowing Bosses. Another casualty was Home Minister Gulzarilat Nanda. Indira Gandhi has been under so much criticism in recent weeks for fail ing to take stern measures against In dia's growing wave of rioting that she realized it was time to take decisive action. So, out went the 68-year-old ascetic who had served for the past 15 years in one Cabinet post or another...
...programmed to digest early returns and forecast winners at the earliest possible moment. At CBS, the setup was VPA (Vote Profile Analysis). NBC offered EVA (Electronic Vote Analysis); ABC produced RSVP (Research Selected Vote Profile). Like wire-service leg men still dedicated to the old-fashioned proposition that beat ing the opposition by a matter of minutes is a major victory, each network was determined to be first to call the winners. Fragmentary returns from key precincts were fed into the computers; comparisons were made with past voting patterns; projections of the uncounted votes were worked...
...evident in the mid-1950s, when Stalinist-tailored war economies - with their stress on heavy industry to the exclusion of consumer desires - began to cause widespread discontent. Yugoslavia was the first to move, after its break with the Kremlin in 1948, introducing a system of decentralized planning and establish ing "workers' councils" as co-managers of its factories. In 1956, Poland's "bread and freedom" riots in Poznan triggered reforms that - on paper, at least - far outdistanced Yugoslavia...
...partly a matter of visual impact, mood and style. Book of Knowledge, printed in four-color offset, easily excels the others in use of bright, clear pictures, and its large type and short sentences make it brisk and readable. It approaches many major subjects with an enticing narrative open ing. World Book uses the smallest type of the four, which could bother younger students, but opens up its pages with skillful use of tables, sketches and boxes...
...commanded by Hitler to repel the enemy or leave the city "a blackened field of ruins," but chose for the first time to disobey an order and secretly invited the Allies to enter Paris in order to save it, while Hitler angrily demanded, "Is Paris burn ing'?"-the words later made famous by the book and the movie, which will open in the U.S. this week; in Baden-Baden, West Germany...