Word: spites
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...havoc of bombs and battle in Viet Nam has also made a market for other supplies. South Viet Nam, in spite of the war, still exports rice to both India and Japan. In return, India has sold it irrigation pumps and sugar-mill machinery, while in other Asian countries factories are busy sewing pajamas for Vietnamese war refugees. A Korean construction firm recently won a $5,000,000 contract to dredge five Vietnamese harbors. Taiwan is contracting to ship $2,000,000 worth of two different kinds of gravel, one to be used in building runways and the other...
...attack on Wilson's economic policies to an arithmetic formula: 9-5-1. The nine stands for Britain's soaring 9% wage increases in the past year despite Labor's pledge to hold down wages. The five stands for the 5% hike in prices in spite of Wilson's pledge to enforce price stability. The one stands for Britain's perilously low 1% increase in productivity in the wake...
...spokesmen of a genuine Chinese nationalism even while remaining Communist. It is by no means true that all the circumstances here described can be found in all underdeveloped countries. Warlordism and military fragmentation is by no means a universal phenomenon in the third world. Many of these states, in spite of their many debilities, do succeed in creating a fairly unified, cohesive and disciplined army. Furthermore, few of these new nations now confront a foreign enemy on their own soil...
...that I've ceased being a Negro because I've received recognition in the mainstream of American society and because my problems as a Negro have been somewhat ameliorated. I would like to feel that I was appointed not because I was a Negro, but maybe in spite of that fact." One of Weaver's most welcome qualifications is that he himself is a lover of cities and a connoisseur of urban living. "The American city is like a beguiling woman," he says with gusto. "Each woman has her own attributes, and each man, thank...
...Minister of Immigration, Harold Holt established a milestone of sorts in 1952 by ruling that Japanese wives of Australian servicemen could enter Australia in spite of the tight restrictions on Asian immigrants. As Prime Minister, Holt last week ordered a re-examination of Australia's immigration policies with a view to bringing them more in line with the country's emerging awareness that its destiny really rests in Asia. Already the review has produced one result: a prime-ministerial recommendation reducing the 15-year period that non-European immigrants must wait before becoming eligible for citizenship to five...