Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sullen Twins. Then there are more immediate economic worries. Smith & Co. have it in their power to isolate landlocked Zambia from its markets and to cut off electrical power in the rich Zambian copper fields around Ndola. Rhodesians control the turbines and generators of the giant Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River, which forms the border between the two countries. Completed in 1960 under the now defunct Central African Federation, Kariba supplies both Zambia and Rhodesia with power, ties them together like sullen Siamese twins. For two weeks Kaunda has demanded that Britain at least send troops to "neutralize...
...interest payments, dividends and pensions from Britain to Rhodesian residents, thus damming a flow of income that totaled some $25 million last year. He even outlawed Rhodesia's bright new independence postal stamp as British postage. If Smith was scared, he wasn't showing it: with rich, like-minded South Africa backing him up, he was counting on shifting Rhodesia's trade to the south, thus easing the sting of the British embargo...
Northeastern ate up six seconds, and then their hot shooting guard Rich Weitzman tried a 20-foot jump shot. It hit the rim and bounced high in the air. A dozen arms groped for the ball. The Huskies' nimble forward. Harry Barnes, won the battle for possession and tapped in the winning score as the buzzer sounded...
...there isn't. Lockwood has everything that riches can buy, but he still has the feeling that he is being denied something. It bothers him. It still bothers O'Hara-who has also made it. And that is just the trouble-both with Lockwood as a convincing character and O'Hara as a novelist. For it no longer bothers anybody else. The upwardly mobile do make it. The rich are no longer exclusive. O'Hara is fighting a battle against the Establishment that the Establishment itself has long since quit fighting...
...that the worst crime of all is poverty. They who disdain wealth and prate morality are hypocrites. "Money is the most important thing in the world," says Shaw in his Preface, "It is the counter that enables life to be distributed socially." It is better to be a wicked rich man than a poor honest one. The former has power that can be turned to good; the latter has only snivelling weakness...