Word: seven-year
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...towering, 20-ft. statue of Lenin behind the platform and the short, round, balding figure at the speaker's stand below. "See!" cried Nikita Khrushchev, a talented ad-libber, thrusting aside his 46,000-word text. "Even the sun favors us. Nature smiles on the seven-year plan...
...said by the Sikkimese to be a reincarnation of Albert Einstein. The dewan considers his main task to be "the Sikkimization" of Sikkim-the attempt to preserve Sikkim's culture and identity from too much Tibetan or Chinese influence. The Indians are also pushing a $7,000,000 seven-year plan to modernize Sikkim's covered-wagon transport, build schools and roads...
...Market-against those of Germany, Italy and Benelux. Now, in addition to devaluing the franc, France had also to make it convertible-or else face a capital flight away from the franc to the convertible pound or Deutsche Mark. Unlike Britain, whose gold and dollar reserves are at a seven-year high, France is running a $60 million foreign-trade deficit every month...
...party bodies will grip the task with all their energy," concluded Khrushchev, "the goals set by the seven-year plan will not only be fulfilled but overfulfilled." In other words, the party must get tougher with the peasants-or Khrushchev is not going to hit his ambitious target of raising farm production another...
...popular than the last President of the Fourth Republic, outgoing René Coty, who began moving his things out of the palace after his wife died in 1955, will need only a small truck to take away the rest of his books. Then Charles de Gaulle will begin his seven-year rule...