Word: reconstruct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the protests of militant Marxists, he began promoting "healthy cooperation" with France, sought increased aid. "They are duty bound to help us reconstruct," he said in an interview with TIME Correspondent James Wilde. "This would help dissipate all that went before." France is committed to give Algeria a minimum of $200 million a year for the next three years and is sponsoring its association with the Common Market...
Slim's vivid, modest account of the Burma campaign, Defeat into Victory, is already reckoned a minor masterpiece of war reporting. His new Unofficial History of assorted lesser campaigns in a 48-year army career boosts his reputation as a soldier who can reconstruct battles as brilliantly as he fought them...
...Sixth Republic may give better social opportunities to white-collar workers and professional people, thus encouraging them to get back into politics and "reconstruct the government...
...ancient Babylon are already hard at work with Dr. Tuckerman's tables. Eventually they may check the dates of such events as Nebuchadnezzar's deportation of the Jews or Cyrus' capture of Babylon-sometimes, perhaps, to the very hour, Babylon Standard Time. They hope to reconstruct a detailed history of the almost forgotten Babylonian civilization, out of which grew the culture of Greece and modern Europe...
...reconstruct this story of the war's long night, Historian Toland traveled almost 90,000 miles, interviewed 800 survivors, digested mountains of documents that ranged from official histories on both sides to the combatants' personal diaries (and married his Japanese interpreter). By smooth crosscutting from one battle arena to another and viewing events wherever possible through the eyes of the men and women who took part in them, he has turned out a panoramic history that is as suspenseful as a first-rate documentary-and often as moving as a novel...