Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alliance asks for an additional $300 million investment each year from U.S. business, U.S. companies during the first half of last year took out an estimated $29 million more than they put in. Why? "Would you invest in an atmosphere of rising anti-Americanism, unpredictable new taxes, revolutions that occur at the rate of two or three every few months, falling profits and runaway inflation...
...these excesses occur less and less frequently as the book progresses. The intrinsic importance of Hughes' narrative and analysis far outweighs what rative and analysis far outweighs whatever stylistic attractions he has to offer. On the way to his conclusions, he sketches authoritative and compelling pictures of the surreal atmosphere of a campaign, the chaos which surrounds a change in administrations, the Tolstoyan confusion from which great decisions emerge. But his eye is always on the object, he is always looking for signs of that pervasive lethargy which befogs American politics. One of the places he finds...
Neither Wiggins nor Cowen could specify, however, when the contract would be signed. They estimated that the signing could conceivably occur at the end of the week, but said that middle or late May was a more realistic date...
...second revolution occur? Draper denies that United States policy towards Cuba was "the "causative, operative factor.... The decision to turn Cuba into a Communist state was of such fundamental magnitude that it cannot be ascribed to a mere reactive response." In Draper's view, the second revolution resulted from Castro's refusal to permit any reductions or restrictions of his personal power...
...They were bad enough in Russia, what with their great piles of luggage-"nasty-looking Americans, very rude." But they also crop up in Florence, and when Nancy kindly points out the Duomo, they inquire: "Until what time do the stores remain open here?" In their "plastic garments," they occur in Ireland, where they say, "Pourdon me," and ask nuns to close a train window. Nor is England's most hallowed ground safe from the profane American. "Although they descend from people who could not succeed in Europe and furiously shook its dust from their feet, they have...