Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...respected capitalists. "National pride," said Masani, "demands that one should catch up, if not with the prosperity of the U.S. or Canada, at least with that of France or Italy. The Asian intellectual casts his eyes around for some method by which his country can pull itself up almost overnight by its bootstraps. Only too often, Communism is not to him the brave new world that the Western Utopians saw in the '30s, but a practical expedient by means of which a poor nation can ruthlessly mobilize its manpower and resources so as to attain economic strength, military power...
...Star. Back in Britain, the Prince became a TV star overnight when the BBC asked him to drop by and give the kids a talk on the tour. Philip took a full 52 minutes telling about it (and thus set a new record for the longest ad lib broadcast ever made on the network). Skillfully cutting in films and slides on cue, the Prince rambled on about anything and everything. "I'm not surprised it was forbidden," he said, describing the horrid taste of a vegetable believed by those in the Seychelles Islands to be the original forbidden fruit...
...reserves were cut by some $500 million in August and September, was able to sell pounds for dollars and recoup some of its losses. Yet no one knew better than Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft that the fight to maintain Britain's currency will not be won overnight. Said he: "We recognize that this is a long, stiff haul. Our policy is to halt the increase in the supply of money. In years ahead, it will be harder to earn profits under this policy. It will be harder to get wage increases-they will need to be earned...
Thus, the matter of solving the basic social problem of overnight parties has been effectively removed from the students' hands, and administrative authority has taken over to a large degree...
Harvard police may crack down on motorcycles and scooters, the same as on cars, if it receives complaints of too many scooters being parked illegally overnight, University police chief Matthew J. Toohy announced yesterday. This is the first year that student-owned motorbikes have to be registered with the University...