Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less self-sufficient," the economy can absorb rising prices as long as wages rise with them, said Macmillan. But Britain is an exporting nation whose prices must compete in a world market. "We must export to live at all. Fifty million of us there are, living on a rock-and living better than almost any country in the world. The world boom will continue. Other countries will be forging ahead. But we shall have priced ourselves out of the market by our own folly. Our exporters, masters and men, will be out of work . . . With falling exports we should...
...Iran's Zagros Mountains. Through Do Polan Pass, heading north as they had each spring for generations, a band of Bakhtiari tribesmen rode from winter pasturage in Shiraz and Khuzistan to summer fields in Isfahan province. In their ankle-length gowns and brimless felt hats, they nimbly crossed rock-strewn slopes, driving herds before them. At Do Polan summit the brazen, electronic voice of the 20th century met the ancient, changeless East. Four loudspeakers placed around a neat white tent blared at the tribesmen: "Stop...
...sizes and shapes. In My Fair Lady, music had charms to please the most civilized breast; gilding Pygmalion, My Fair Lady made a dazzling Mayfair lady of Shaw's guttersnipe. The season's comedies had everything from the faint fine laughter of the eyes to sheer guffawing rock and roll. There was rewarding drama as well as melodrama, and in The Diary of Anne Frank, which won seven awards (including the Pulitzer and Critics' Circle), sound sentiment...
...exhilarated by the wild beauty of his surroundings. In the Rockies, as he was about to move forward on foot, he noted that "there were some fine asters in bloom." The scene before him was "a gigantic disorder of enormous masses, and a savage sublimity of naked rock, in wonderful contrast with innumerable green spots of a rich floral beauty shut up in their stern recesses...
...Pentagon, refused to okay a deal between Texas' Dresser Industries, Inc. and the Soviet Ministry of Trade. Dresser wanted to import what it called a revolutionary turbine oil-well drill developed by Russian engineers. In return it would agree to ship the Russians some of its own rotary rock drill bits, instruct them in their use. But Commerce, State and Defense Department experts decided that Dresser would get nothing but an unproved tool while giving away the U.S. oil industry's latest technical know...