Word: riche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Certainly it would seem over simple to maintain, as Commerce Secretary Weeks did, that the Sputniks produced a wave of hysteria hoarding. A more sophisticated analysis is obviously necessary. Such a redefinition may well show that America, rich in private goods, is characterized by relative poverty in public goods. Public spending is now so heavily directed towards defense industries that funds for other government services are curtailed. But defense spending is neither an appropriate anti-recession measure nor, hopefully, a permanent cushion for an over-produced economy. To raise the weapons budget in times of depression will constitute an excuse...
Many people were impressed with your pernicious and less than one-dimensional account [May 5] of my rich and overflowing psyche, which is at the disposal of friends and strangers. Unfortunately, strangers are more attracted to me than my friends, for some unaccountable reason...
Little Lebanon, smaller than Connecticut, likes to think of itself as a Switzerland, peacefully balancing its internal factions, staying out of trouble and making money. Today, as in the time when the Phoenicians pushed their biremes seaward from Tyre and Sidon, the business of Lebanon remains business. Rich in universities, nightclubs, banks and commerce, Lebanon sought to sustain itself as officially half Christian and half Moslem, but it has found the delicate cultural, commercial and political balances increasingly harder under the thrusting forces of East-West rivalry and the Arab surge toward unity...
...Latin American countries are characterized by ultra-nationalism and large differences in the living standards of rich and poor, McGann said. He noted that economic problems have been accentuated by our tariff policy, and the inability of South American coffee growers to form a working world-wide cartel...
...with gunpowder, whose job it is to flush the frightened cats from their grass-filled ravine. Vividly, Author Campbell makes the reader experience the suffocating, insect-filled heat of India, the pervasiveness of religion and sex-often in combination-the desperation of the poor and the rapacity of the rich...