Word: realistes
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...nationalist-minded Latin America, foreign oil companies rarely get a chance at new concessions these days on any terms. But in Peru, "nationalist-but-realist" President Manuel Odria now offers new concessions to foreign companies on the handsome basis of a 50-50 profit split with the government. Last week, less than a month after it began to accept bids under the new oil law (TIME, March 24), Odria's Oil Bureau was swamped with some 300 claims by 15 foreign and domestic oil firms for more than 9,000,000 acres of concessions. Said Oil Bureau Director Fernando...
...Realist. In Oklahoma City, veteran Bootlegger Thomas Eugene ("Red") Grattan, haled into court on eight separate liquor possession charges, declared: "I'm through, boys. I'm going to work for the Government . . . There's more money in that...
...Always a realist, he accepted the ultimatum of an obscure general delivered by a turncoat politician. He abdicated, and quit Egypt within the six hours specified. As he stood on the quay to embark, his huge, beefy frame encased in a white naval uniform, tears spilled down his cheeks. Twenty-one guns fired the royal salute, and the royal yacht Mahroussa (meaning Protected) put past the harbor's red and green entrance lights and steamed for Italy. It carried Farouk, his 19-year-old wife, their seven-month-old son, now King Fuad II, and 204 royal trunks...
Infanta Margarita, the San Diego Fine Arts Gallery favorite, is one of many paintings that Diego Velasquez, the master realist, made of the prim and lonely-looking 17th century Spanish Princess...
...demanding on the actors because in the course of the play both the Reverend James Morell and the poet, Marchbanks, must change attitudes: in the case of Morell, from a self-sufficient windbag to an insecure dependent: in the case of Marchbanks, from a weak dreamer to a noble realist...