Word: regional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then those who have no experience of wisdom and virtue, who are always at their feastings and so forth, are being carried downwards, as it seems, and back again to the middle region, and there they wander about all their lives; as to passing above this limit, they have never even cast a look to the true upwards and never been there, never been filled with what really is or had a taste of pure and abiding pleasure. Like brute beasts, they look ever downwards, and feed stooping over the ground and poking their noses into their tables, cropping...
...most visible result was that the region's collective trade balance sank in a year from $564 million to $130 million (on export sales worth more than $7 billion). By mid-1955 imports of capital goods had sagged, and Latin American industry failed to show a healthy expansion during 1955. And the worst drop in imports of capital goods probably is still to come, as a delayed reaction to forced cutbacks in orders...
...Communist, printed a photograph of Falstaff's Vice President Karl Vollmer handing the check to an N.A.A.C.P. official. Squawked the White Sentinel: "When you drink Falstaff beer, you are aiding the integration and mongrelization of America." White Sentinel copies were circulated in Mississippi's Delta region, where Falstaff sales were cut. Vice President Vollmer flew to Jackson to say publicly: "No officer of Falstaff has ever commented favorably or otherwise on the principles of the N.A.A.C.P." After that, officials of the Jackson Citizens' Council declared the company innocent of the charges against it. Now Falstaff sales...
...localness of the Adelie wind suggested that it might be caused by some peculiar topographical feature in inland Antarctica, but no one was sure until U.S. Navy airplanes recently explored the region between the South Pole and Wilkes Land. According to Dr. Paul A. Siple, just returned from Antarctica, the flying explorers found a great sloping trough 200 to 300 miles wide between a high mountain range west of the Ross Ice Shelf and a dome of ice. The trough leads south from the coast, and its high inland end may reach the South Pole (see map). During the Antarctic...
...house, lent by an admirer and crammed with marble cherubs, potted palms and framed needlepoint, this brash young man directs a dedicated army of 800,000 followers from Calais to Algiers. By lifting a phone, he can organize a rally in a provincial town 400 miles away, have the region plastered with posters in 48 hours, dispatch two, ten or 20 Assembly Deputies there as if they were errand boys. Every day, new memberships pour into his new offices in downtown Paris, new readers subscribe to his two newspapers...