Word: shading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have grown about $3 billion in the past year, interest rates are easy, and the reserves of banks have swollen since savings rates were raised from 3% to 4% this year. But capital spending for the year is expected to rise only to $37.2 billion, which is just a shade above the 1957 peak...
...Tucson -a place where I can hit the bars in both towns with equal ease. It will be a place where I'll pat little Mexican children on the head . . . a little white frame house with a rickety front porch where I can laze away in the shade in a straight-backed wooden rocking chair...
...years the Vietnamese peasant has been ordered about, brutalized or wooed by soldiers-French, Japanese, Communist Viet Minh. Now, he is once more caught in the middle, between the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas and Diem's army. Squatting in the shade of his oxcart, a farmer north of Saigon said wearily: "Many times we are forced by the Viet Cong to spend the night digging ditches across the road. In the morning we are forced by the army to fill in the holes. The next night, we must dig them again...
...astonished eyes of the French generals. General Joseph ("Papa") Joffre, the French commander, had been regrouping his armies for a stand on the Seine. Now he had to decide whether or not to risk everything with an attack on Kluck. Throughout a long afternoon, Joffre sat in the shade of an ash tree, a ponderous figure in black tunic, baggy red pants, and army-issue boots, and faced the problem. "Gentlemen," he said finally, "we will fight on the Marne...
...ugliest. To the casual eye, there is no change. The square white houses still climb on each other's shoulders up to the wooded heights. In the Moslem quarter, the casbah's tunneled alleys are filled with turbaned men and neat-stepping donkeys burdened with panniers. Beneath the leafy shade of the Forum and along the Rue Michelet in the European district stroll some of the loveliest girls in the world, giggling and gossiping as if they were not a step away from a daily round of slaughter...