Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parallel to ours-not because of sentiment, but in their own self-interest. Democracy is a tie in these cases, economics is a tie, and Christianity is another tie." All those things that have been said are half truths. Economics cannot be a tie if the prices of our raw materials continually decrease while the prices of your manufactured goods continually increase. Democracy and the idea of constitutional government cannot be a tie when dictatorships, unfortunately, now govern more than six countries in Latin America. It is necessary for the U.S. State Department to abandon the idea that only those...
...resist the temptation to rush in, demand your sunflower seeds and exit. This is no seedy establishment, you will concede. Yeasts, soybean powders, raw sugars, dried fruits, honeys, extracts, gums; and syrups of all kinds will demand your attention. (On Cottage Grove Avenue near 63rd Street in Chicago, a "Hindu Incense" shop sells tonics of lion's blood and iron and 80 percent alcohol, powders to remove odors and demons, candles and incense and totems and icons...
...trying to play the humble-beginnings record," he says, "but I studied by kerosene. We had no electricity. There were no paved roads. In my childhood, this country was still raw frontier." Connally's grandparents lived in the Floresville area, as did his parents. His father had been a tenant farmer, then ran a meat market and worked as a laborer before the family moved on to San Antonio when John was ten. There his father drove a bus from San Antonio to Corpus Christi, covering the 144-mile, one-way round trip each...
...Columbia University's Teachers College. The military has 300,000 students in schools all over the world, from Arctic huts to the National War College. In the U.S. alone are 300 military schools teaching 4,000 courses, from the three-R level to the Ph.D. Even the raw recruit now spends a third of his time in a classroom; the general gets the equivalent of two or three years of graduate study. To keep everyone learning off-duty as well, 33 correspondence schools provide 2,500 mail-order courses to 1,000,000 servicemen and servicewomen around the globe...
Cyprus' political straitjacket has forced its economy, to remain largely as the British left it when they granted independence in 1960, after five years of gureilla struggle. Cyprus is a classic example of a colonial economy, exporting raw materials, mainly mineral ores, and importing manufactures. Forty-five percent of foreign trade is with the United Kingdom. Now the poilitical and economic tensions in Cyprus have brought that country to the verge of civil...