Word: seacoasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...photography is of course excellent. Without Cinemanscope or Vistavision, the camera catches the seacoast, seasonal changes, and other countryside scenes with delicate and restrained artistry. Very effective angle shots are employed, especially in the last big race, as the horses leave the post, round the turns, and finally slow down past the finish line...
...Lennox-Boyd agreed to a new plan that would pour about $58,240,000 into social and economic development in the next five years. The specific points covered by the plan included completion of the 130,000-acre Boerasirie irrigation and drainage project, rebuilding the main road along the seacoast from the Surinam border to Georgetown through rich sugar-and rice-growing areas, completion of a 4,000-unit housing scheme, and rural electrification. More than half the cash for the program will be provided by long-term loans from British financiers and the World Bank. Most of the remaining...
Only a narrow belt along the seacoast of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut escaped the minus readings, but night brought temperatures of 10 degrees to that strip...
Salazar rules calmly from the background, hating every minute of the occasional public appearances he cannot avoid. Living piously, almost austerely (up at 6:30 every morning for Mass), he pays himself a $500-a-month salary (plus a Lisbon mansion and a summer place made from an old seacoast fortress). He governs a land of 8,500,000 people and 35,000 square miles, plus overseas possessions (e.g., Mozambique, Macao) which make Portugal No. 3 of the world's colonial powers. His face-dominated by dark, thoughtful eyes and a long nose, and topped by neat, grey hair...
...comes to fighting the Communists in his own country, managed to patch together a coalition between his own Congress Party and a few independents that would give his side a handy majority in Andhra; he located the state capital at Kurnool, far from the Communist pressure groups of the seacoast; he persuaded respected, 85-year-old Tanguturu Prakasam, who quit the Congress Party 30 months ago, to rejoin the party as Andhra's chief minister of state. Then he warned 100,000 new Andhrans in Kurnool that they should not set themselves aside from India. India was the mansion...