Word: pe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Discovered by Pigs. The outlaw monopoly starts right at the mines, in the jagged Andes 60 miles northeast of Bogotá. Many jewels are stolen by miners in the government's Muzo, Peñas Blancas and Coscuez mines. The thieves pocket most of the emeralds that they dig out of the soil, paying off the inspectors who are supposed to guard the pits. Other stones are illegally mined to begin with. A miner with a few pesos to invest in dynamite and tools assembles a squad of men and goes off to dig. It is not a difficult...
...they could make less trouble. Agriculture was given priority, and thousands of small fertilizer plants, repair shops and power stations were built in the countryside. The result was a significant upsurge in the 1970 grain harvest, claimed to be 240 million tons, as well as in industrial output, which Pe king claims amounts to $90 billion. Some analysts guess that China's economic growth rate reached 10% last year, and all are agreed that the economy has now fully recovered from the ravages of the Cultural Revolution and that the average Chinese citizen's stan dard of living...
...literary artist from politics. By custom, Germans expect a soulful aloofness from intellectuals. Art is enduring, a thing apart, not to be contaminated by the daily, dirty round of politics. Naturally, the last thing that Germans expect of a writer is that he will paint a rooster crowing "Es-Pe-De" (for Social Democratic Party) on the side of a secondhand Volkswagen bus and vulgarly, vulgarly bounce thousands of miles through West Germany campaigning for Willy Brandt. Last summer Grass did just that...
...Everybody's bored shit," said student. "Maybe this will make pe?? happier...
...questioning look on everyone's fa?? I could tell that I was not the only member of the group who was un??e of the identity of one Sidney Pe?? Courageously, I confronted her. "V??o is Sidney Peck, anyway...