Word: money
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...process of giving away U.S. money to strengthen friendly foreign governments sometimes seems to have a built-in mechanism of self-defeat...
Divided by caste, religion and geography, the Indians have leaders but no solid front. The Africans and their rabble-rousers accuse them of bleeding the country to send money to India, of profiteering, and of binding ignorant blacks to usurious installment-credit schemes...
...running of the $88,100 Wood Memorial at New York's Jamaica race track. But the pace was too fast, and a 64-to-1 long shot named Manassa Mauler charged through on the inside, won by three-quarters of a length to take $55,915 first money...
...noisy political ways, almost broke from prosecuting an inconclusive libel suit against a charge that he was a Communist. But when he finally came back, a four-week engagement at Greenwich Village's Village Gate stretched on to ten. And all of a sudden it was good-money times again...
...house he tacked huge canvases to the wall and dabbed at them with colors arranged on a china plate. Achieving something that suited him, he would snip it out and ship it to his dealers. Connoisseurs began buying Bonnards at modest prices; living simply, he had no money worries. His chosen life remained much the same until his death twelve years ago at 79, when he left a studio full of pictures valued at about $2,000,000 and hotly contested by his heirs (TIME. March...