Word: resultantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are thousands of such deserted villages in Algeria today. Their roofless houses and empty streets symbolize the plight of the passive Moslem population caught in the middle of the war's crossfire. The result is a social upheaval in which more than a million Moslems have been uprooted-either fleeing bombs or evicted en masse from "forbidden zones" by French attempts to "sterilize" rebel-infested areas...
...press censorship to claim ignorance of what was going on. The London Times declared that "it is lawful to use such force as is necessary to prevent escape, but not to compel unwilling men to work," and concluded that the government-sanctioned Cowan Plan "led directly to the fatal result...
...State Fair and invitations to hit the road in Britain landed on Reeve's desk. To pay their way, the players kicked in their savings, worked at all sorts of odd jobs, raised $10,000 on their own. Friends, teachers, fellow students boosted the ante to $17,000. Result: the Howard Payne Dream will be sole U.S. representative at Bristol's prestigious International Festival of University Theater, and for nine weeks will get top billing at professional theaters in Coventry, Northampton, Cambridge, and Dundee, Scotland. If this is the way to meet up with ole Shakespeare, the students...
...findings the A.M.A. added warnings. The pills can help for one climactic occasion, but result in bad hangovers. Used habitually, they can lead to loss of weight, addiction, and, in the end, brain damage...
...social scene. At one point Packard himself concedes that the "American populace [is] arranged along a continuum [with] a series of bulges and contractions." Much of what Packard describes as status seeking is indeed foolish, and some of it may be evil; but much of it is also the result of man's human status, and the product of a free and mobile society. In a closed society where "everyone knows his place," people need not and often cannot strive for status; it is given them at birth and stays with them until their fashionable or unfashionable grave...