Word: outpost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plans for a steel mill. London has promised $20 million to improve the harbor. World Bank and U.N. missions have been in Singapore discussing ways to provide the $110 million outside help needed to complete Lee's $330 million, five-year plan to turn Singapore into an industrial outpost to rival Hong Kong. Labeling Communists "the ultimate enemy," Lee has shaken up trade union leadership, set up an arbitration court to cut down on strikes...
...change of the American policy from disarming Japan (like Germany) to rearming it (like Germany) has produced some bitterness, especially because the status of disarmament was a vital part of the constitution given to Japan by MacArthur. But beyond this the geographical situation of Japan, which makes it an outpost of the Asiatic continent, awakens the desire of this ninety-million nation to change their function and to become politically independent. This is probably naive in view of the present world, but it is emotionally understandable...
Most important, the Chinese feel that Formosa must become a truly thriving outpost of intellectual freedom for all of Asia. Said Dr. Hu, as he summed up the opportunity: "I believe I am justified to conclude that the men now in control of the Chinese mainland are still afraid of the spirit of freedom, the spirit of independent thinking, the courage to doubt, and the spirit and method of evidential thinking I believe the tradition of the humanistic and rationalistic China has not been destroyed...
...flourishing period of the Portuguese influence in the 16th century. Because of the way that the watercolors sink into the cloth, the paintings have the texture of tapestry. Other authorities, however, claim that the Madonnas are indeed true tapestries, and that they were carried from Europe to this outpost of Christianity in Africa several hundred years...
...running for the school board, and you vote for or against him with more understanding." Says Don C. Peters, president of Pittsburgh's Mellon-Stuart Co. (construction) and chairman of the board of supervisors of suburban Pine Township: "The American suburb is the last outpost of democracy, the only level left on which the individual citizen can make his wishes felt, directly and immediately. I think there's something idealistic about the search for a home in the suburbs. Call it a return to the soil. It's something that calls most people some time in their...