Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...killing 13 people and wrecking hundreds of homes. Now the danger is worse. A thick layer of unstable ash has accumulated in the area between Cartago and the smoking mountain. With the rainy season approaching, it may turn into a slithery morass and, faster than a man can run, slide down the valleys, picking up rocks and trees. The first heavy rain to soak Irazú, Tazieff fears, may well start a giant mudslide capable of destroying Cartago...
Zanzibar's slide into the Communist camp has been watched with dismay but little action from Washington and London. Though the British publicly pooh-pooh the suggestion that tiny Zanzibar (pop. 315,000) is becoming an African Cuba, they alerted mainland East African governments to the danger of subversion. When the U.S. Ambassador to Kenya, William Attwood, chimed in with a similar warning that Zanzibar should be "a source of concern to Africans," the Revolutionary Council took umbrage. Last week it peremptorily demanded the removal of a $3,000,000 U.S. space-tracking station, one of 16 strung around...
Always in the past, the soldiers stepped aside when the crisis had passed, and marched back to their barracks. Not this time-not after watch ing Brazil slide steadily down the abyss with Goulart and his far-leftist cronies...
...foreign currencies and prompted many U.S. and foreign investors to shift their "safe haven" capital to the U.S. Much of this money comes from wealthy Latin Americans, oil-rich Arabs and, Washington believes, even from Communist bigwigs-possibly including the Red Chinese. Investors are also uneasy about a slide in the French stock market, Italy's new austerity program and the forthcoming British elections. Says a top banker in Paris: "The economic news from the U.S. is good, and the big professional investors want...
...world. Each character is an island: giant kew-pie-doll children with pasty faces, strolling tradesmen stolidly strutting with their canes, spreading ladies slickly fitted into a colorful armor of corsets. Lindner's pictorial poseurs hobnob in a funhouse atmosphere where floors that seem to slant up actually slide down and ripple-mirrors reflect limbs as if swollen with elephantiasis...