Word: riche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation, however rich and powerful, can continue indefinitely to take the beating that America is taking at the hands of its State Department...
...Koranic passages to justify Nasser's policies. Nasser's hold on the Arab unity movement is further tightened by some 3,000 Egyptian schoolteachers who have flooded the Arab-speaking world, helping to spark pro-Nasser riots in Jordan and to turn the people of oil-rich Kuwait and Saudi Arabia against their rulers...
...holidays. They do not look or act alike. Franco is a shy honor student, and Carlos Alberto is a husky athlete. Maria Fernanda is quiet, Maria Esther a chatterbox, and Maria Cristina somewhere in between. But they feel their special ties. The father, an Italian immigrant who got rich with textile mills and vegetable-oil factories, says the five are a kind of "Mafia," with their own secret jokes and fierce loyalty. The children chatter in Spanish among themselves, speak Italian to their family and English in school...
...Deep Space. Nuclear rocket enthusiasts are not really satisfied with an engine that works in so simple a way. They are already dreaming of more sophisticated schemes for long-distance flights. One of these is an engine whose nuclear fuel is a uranium-rich gas mixed with the hydrogen propellant. When the nuclear reaction starts, both gases will get hot and blast out of the nozzle. This would produce a magnificent short-duration thrust, but the wasted uranium would cost something like $150 million per takeoff. The way around this little difficulty would be some system to keep the heavy...
...economy was that the moneyed U.S. farmer was fast becoming a pillar of strength, buying and consuming with rare power to pick up the slack from other social groups. To many a businessman, the strongest market of 1958 is the farm market-the equivalent of discovering a rich, import-hungry foreign country. In Bloomington, Ill. Sears, Roebuck reports that its trucks go out loaded with freezers, ranges and refrigerators; on R.D.S. routes freezer sales alone are running 50% ahead of last year. Nor are appliances the only things that farmers want. With cash in his jeans, the U.S. farmer...