Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years has received supports as one of the U.S.'s six "basic" agricultural commodities. Nonsmoker Williams wondered "whether the tax payers should subsidize the production of this commodity, which the Surgeon General and other responsible physicians have said is harmful to the American people." Tobacco-state Senators rose in righteous wrath. Chief among them was North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin, who borrowed a line from Rudyard Kipling: "And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke." Williams' amendment was voted down...
...Waymon Rose, 41, a native of Chattanooga, Tenn., who moved to Dallas 15 years ago, now sells furniture throughout Texas and three neighboring states, seems to be the humorist on the jury...
...determination to get on with the job of building a nation seemed to have communicated itself to his people, largely through his motto, "Uhuru na kazi"-"Independence and work." Then, in a sudden, senseless instant, Nyerere's carefully woven fabric of stability ripped down the middle. His army rose against him; riots exploded in the streets of Dar es Salaam. Only by calling in British troops did Nyerere survive. When the smoke cleared, a frightening question remained: If Julius Nyerere could be shaken to the verge of destruction, who in all Africa was safe...
...matter of history by this time, however, that during the terms of Arevalo and his successor Jacobo Arbenz, Communism rose to ascendency. Finally in 1954 a C.I.A.-inspired invasion overthrew Arbenz, and rightist democratic regimes followed...
Like the Amazonian rain forest or the skyline of São Paulo, inflation in Brazil never seems to stop growing. The cost of living last year rose 80.7% : auto prices increased 100% , drugs 78% and food 77% . Last week Brazil's prices began a new spiral that threatens to make last year's inflation appear mild...