Word: interiorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excellent position for attacking. He did immediately, but his first pass failed. Undaunted, he continued with his pass action style of football, and only three plays later the ball was laid on the Harvard 18. Switching to orthodox, short run plays, McCarthy then had his fellow backs assault the interior line until he had achieved the one yard line. Harvard's forward wall found it impossible to resist the superior weight that was thrown against them...
...first time in 15 years, the price of rice has dropped on the eve of the main harvest because, according to Diem, the Reds can no longer effectively block shipments from the interior to the cities...
...Dutch have gone, despite UNTEA offers to many doubling their salaries. Left in the hands of ill-trained Papuan natives, administration is in a state of sputtering disorder. In Hollandia the water supply is polluted, telephone and mail services have been disrupted, and communication with the interior has broken down. Food is short, and Papuan policemen, no longer commanded by Dutch officers, are reluctant to break up the constant brawls...
Bird & Snake. Life in the interior is still only a step away from the Stone Age. The 700.000 Papuans are scattered into some 200 different tribes, each with its own language and each savagely hostile toward the others. Since killing virtually holds the status of a sporting event among the tribesmen, a Papuan convicted of murder is apt to get only two weeks in jail by a backwoods court, while a European would in all likelihood be hanged. In some areas, pigs are more valuable than women. To get strength, native warriors tie dried pigs' testicles around their arms...
...call it a bar would be wrong. It is a saloon. And very much of the right sort--luxurious red interior, brass lamp fixtures, an exquisite Wurlitzer nickelodeon and, oy course, peanuts to throw at the villain of the melodrama...