Word: persisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even West Germany, which officially disdains the sale of armaments, is said to be back in the arms business. Despite government denials, reports persist that Bonn is negotiating to build a tank-parts factory in Teheran. Private German armsmakers report soaring sales to the Middle East and tacit government encouragement of any deal likely to win favor with the oil exporters. Says a veteran weapons dealer in Bonn: "If you know the secret word, you can get an arms export license to any Arab country in eight days. The secret word...
...three successive displays of power by the military in 1970 and 1971 have returned the Bolivian political scene to its normal unpredictable state. The campesinos are once again an oppressed people, deprived of political rights, socially scorned and economically submerged. But the effects of 1952 and the reforma agraria persist. No longer can the peasants remain isolated from the rest of the nation. Most have been integrated into the national economy. More and more learn Spanish in place of their Indian tongue and replace their traditional costume with modern dress. The Indian world finds itself simultaneously tugged in two directions...
...were mainsprings of action, the very life of Greek epic and biblical saga, of medieval tale and Eastern chronicle. Modern science and psychology have learned to explain much of what was once inexplicable, but mysteries remain. The workings of the mind still resist rational analysis; reports of psychic phenomena persist. Are they all accident, illusion? Or are there other planes and dimensions of experience and memory? Could there be a paranormal world exempt from known natural...
Still, frustrations persist. Rabinowitz is consumed by guilt when he finds himself enjoying the freedom to read or play music. Onaitis is forced to sublimate his success drive by remodeling an old house. And some couples discover that the swap can add unnecessary family expenses-at least at the beginning. Onaitis, for example, who frequently squanders part of the weekly food budget his wife gives him on his favorite toasted soybeans and sunflower seeds, once signed up for seven magazine subscriptions in one day. He liked the salesman...
...been trying to break the back of the strike with the weight of public opinion. Using propaganda tactics and predictions of doom if the miners get their way, Heath is skirting the economic issues behind the strike and trying to make it politically unfeasible for the miners to persist in their demands. Heath hopes to have Britons looking for reds under their beds with his charges that communists have infiltrated Britain's trade union's. His claim that the choice to be made in this election is "between extremism and moderation" indicates that the Conservative prime minister is unprepared...