Word: massee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the speculators move en masse, they create a situation in which all of a sudden everyone wants to sell dollars on the foreign exchange markets. In this manner, some $6 billion flooded into Germany and $1.6 billion into Japan in little more than a week just prior to the...
The villagers gawked and giggled at the activity, assembled en masse before the thatched huts. At first there seemed to be no sign of the troops holding the barrio. Only after spotting the floppy jungle hats, ubiquitous badge of counterinsurgency, could one distinguish them from the villagers. They were stripped...
Like most journalists who visited Biafra, De St. Jorre pays tribute to the courage and resourcefulness of the Ibos. He describes one village of 300 people that moved en masse seven times in two years. But he was equally impressed with the Ibos' uncanny grasp of propaganda. One day...
Small Solace. When only a handful of publishers met Thieu's original deadline for complying with the deposit demand, he relented slightly; the time limit was extended two weeks and the interest rate on the enforced deposits raised from 1.5% to 12%. That was small solace to the publishers...
Though Fiedler was entertaining, he was, of course being foolish First. Tolstoy's faith in art was based in Christian humanism, in the belief that every man had basic principles which could be appealed to by the sincere and talented artist Fiedler, on the other hand hopes for some mass...