Word: resulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue, advocating a program to free rank-and-file workers from boss control (Iowa already has a right-to-work law). The big switch in the district is that Kyi may cut into the Democrats' traditional city vote, Democrat Carter into the Republicans' rural vote, with the result a tossup...
...Democrat to hold a South Dakota congressional seat in 18 years. The South Dakota vote is strictly agricultural: McGovern started ahead because Foss had lost friends by raising taxes; then rains brought a farm boom and Foss moved up; then an August drought came to McGovern's help. Result: McGovern appears to have a handy lead, rapping Ezra Benson while Republican Foss tries to avoid taking a stand one way or another on Benson. But Foss, World War II Marine Corps ace, has yet to warm up his Piper Super Cub and take off on the kind of whirlwind...
Last week Nasser swung his broom. In a characteristically smooth maneuver for strengthening his own authority without bruising any feelings, he announced a reorganization of the U.A.R. government. The first result was to move Hourani as a member of the new central Cabinet out of Syria and into Egypt. A second was to clip the scheming Colonel Abdel Hamid Ser-raj's power as proconsul in Syria by placing him under the Egyptian Minister of Interior, who would take over Serraj's much-prized authority to appoint Syrian provincial governors. That took care of the two most ambitious...
...some of the older communes "people's mess halls" have already become, the Reds boast, "almost the only place one can eat." Instead of turning to his wife when his trousers need mending, the good commune member now takes his problem to the "sewing brigade." The result, declares Peking, is that 20 million women in seven provinces now find themselves "freed" to contribute the family pots and pans to a scrap-metal drive and turn their attention from housework to such progressive tasks as "road building, tree planting and ditch digging...
Much of this dislike stemmed from a sense of inferiority and his agonizing self-consciousness. As a result he buried himself deeply in his work and in his reading. Often in the letters of the period he would write of a profound loneliness: "Even the solitude of a desert is companionship when compared to the loneliness of a city. The modern hermit carries all within him--his retreat is the populous wilderness of this world...