Word: procession
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some 10 million Frenchmen ? or 20% of the population ? had somehow struck at their government, either directly or by stopping work. The depth of discontent was clear to all, and it was only the fear of another convulsive round of riots that saved De Gaulle. In the process, he bargained away the wage curbs of the franc's stability, helping to precipitate the fiscal crisis that followed...
...student rioters surging through the Ginza area, hurling Molotov cocktails, jamming auto and rail traffic and stoning every cop in sight. Police kept the 8,000 demonstrators under a degree of control with the generous use of throat-clogging tear-gas grenades and high-pressure water hosings. In the process, some 160 people were injured and 900 students were seized...
Slowly and subtly, that process appears to have begun-in response to the Government's policy of tight money, high taxes and a budgetary surplus. The real growth of the gross national product, not counting mere price increases, dropped from an annual rate of 6.4% in last year's first quarter to 2.8% in this year's first quarter. Even so, a FORTUNE survey shows that businessmen are still in an expansionist mood; 77% of those polled expect further increase in sales over the next twelve months. If the leading indicators prove correct, some abrupt changes...
...turns out in consequence to be, among other things, smartly constructed. Instead of handing us tiresomely detailed, hideously flawed cases for treatment, Mr. Bloch throws out two empty characters and spends his nine scenes in an effort to make them worth knowing. He has set and filled in the process two hypothetical criteria for the organic play, that it neither begin with a rehash of fetal murmurings nor end on the expressway to second-childhood. The plot of Mr. Bloch's work, called for reasons beyond my ken Good At It, is thus a blessedly cohesive whole...
...watch and see what would happen if people started altering their awareness frequently and willfully with drugs. Let us look at dexedrine and the academic process...