Word: resulted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Southern Rhodesia, most advanced of the three states in the Federation (it has been self-governing since 1923), likes to boast that, as a result of keeping its black majority firmly in a minority place, there has been no serious racial trouble for 50 years. But in the present grim atmosphere of expected violence, M.P.s in Salisbury began acting as if panga-bearing rebels were already chopping away at the great teak doors of the Assembly itself...
...even worse bind. At first word that the boondoggle might end, the miners marched out on strike. The solution was a classic of doubletalk. Siles promised the U.S. to cut the subsidy gradually over a period of four months. To the union leaders, he promised a 35% pay raise. Result: everyone went back to work, and the International Cooperation Administration mailed off a check. How long Siles can continue his act is another matter. Both the U.S. lenders and Bolivian takers remember that Siles has promised twice before to end the mine subsidy, and reneged each time...
...exciting-and profitable-was the ancient art work that Mexicans started collecting, hired peons and Indians to do their digging. Mexican authorities became conscious of their ancient heritage, prohibited the export of valuable art. Result: a new spurt in excavations and the rise of smuggling. As more exotic relics appeared in the U.S.. such art buffs as Nelson Rockefeller, John Huston, Charles Laughton became avid collectors and paid top prices...
...what he got was a sexless ninny. Yet in many of the recent westerns, the woman is far less passive. She is continually attempting to bring the hero down to earth, to make him face reality. She is behaving like a real woman, "and the hero, as a result, begins to lose his superhuman disinterestedness and sexlessness, begins to behave like a real...
...complexities of modern life and back to the "restful absolutes" of the past. Western Man in Zane Grey's definition of the term is in fact an almost exact opposite of Western Man in Toynbee's sense. In the cowboy's world, justice is the result of direct action, not of elaborate legality. A man's fate depends on his own choices and capacities, not on the vast impersonal forces of society or science. His motives are clearly this or that, unsullied by psychologizing (except, of course, in the Freudian frontier yarns). Moreover a man cannot...