Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev's economic plan for the East Germans means a new kind of dependence on their old Russian foes, and its fulfillment is a political question-on which East Germans, whatever their phony 99.9% elections say, still vote with their feet by fleeing West at the rate of 2,000 a week...
Without its oil, pouring from the ground at a rate of 1,000,000 barrels a day and earning the nation an estimated $250 million this year, Iran would simply be another semi-arid pastoral and agricultural nation like its neighbor Afghanistan. Without the special qualities of its 19 million people, who have been taught cleverness and patience by history, are generally more devoted to their kinsmen than their nation, and are suspicious of every move by those in power, Iran would be an easier country to govern. For example, Iranian slum dwellers have been known to refuse to move...
...give López Mateos' 1,000,000 new Mexicans houses and food, to raise the nation's standards of living, to lift members of the lower class into a better life at the same rate as recent years, Mexico must create 1,650 new jobs every day. In this task Adolfo López Mateos will probably cut close to the pattern of welfare-state capitalism that has given his country its great splurge of growth...
Most ardent believer is a brash, well-formed 15-year-old Berlin schoolgirl named Cornelia Froboess-known only as Conny-who has sold 1,450,000 records on the Electrola label this year, earned royalties of $60,000 (of which her father-manager doles out pocket money at the rate of 26? a month). Sighing with all the delicate modulation of a stricken heifer, she belts out Tin Pan Alley tunes and ersatz German approximations with equal gusto. Conny just finished her first movie, commands a following of 56 adoring fan clubs with about 10,000 members. She travels about...
...quare fellow will hang, greedily rushing the guard carrying the quare fellow's last dinner, fighting in the quare fellow's grave over his salable last letters. As a large-scale muralist, Behan lacks concentration and power; as a thumbnail etcher, he is at his vividest first-rate...