Word: pry
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small safety of his home in the morn ing, ran considerable risk of being robbed or assassinated by ruffians, or jailed or executed by his rulers, before he could return to it. And the home it self was a poor sanctuary from starva tion and disease, from pain and pri vation and death." Things are better now, even for the underprivileged, in much of the world. But it is a case of new stresses being substituted for old. Because there has been "an explosion of expectations," there will be "again a stressful period of adjusting to the abundance of goods...
...onetime lawyer, soldier and economics professor, Paz is short and swarthy, with gentle brown eyes and a friendly humor. Yet in 1952, he led a social revolution that emancipated the population from virtual serfdom and crushed the power of the army. In its early days, like Mexico's PRI in the first stages of the Mexican revolution, Paz's National Revolutionary Movement operated with a heavy hand, sending its enemies to concentration camps or into exile. Today, though it is plagued by entrenched party politicians ("Tammany Hall," Paz calls them), the party probably speaks for the majority...
Spain's conservative and puritanical pri mate. Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel, 84. Archbishop of Toledo, has vigorously stepped in to defend H.O.A.C.; after Franco lashed out at "some exalted priests" for stirring up trouble in Asturias, Cardinal Pla y Deniel allowed his church officials to discipline the erring priests, but neglected to condemn their activities...