Word: sprawlingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sixteen months ago, when Red China's "great leap forward" seemed in danger of ending in an ignominious sprawl (TIME, Feb. 16, 1959 et seq.), Peking's planners decided that for the time being they would concentrate on forcing the nation's peasants into the hive life of the new "people's communes." "In the cities," explained the Central Committee of China's Communist Party, "bourgeois ideology is still fairly prevalent among many of the capitalists and intellectuals; they still have misgivings about the establishment of communes-so we should wait a bit for them...
...hands from Tory Marples to the Fabian Socialist intellectuals agree, Britain's prime social problem is not too many people but too many people in the wrong places. Like the U.S. itself, but more acutely, Britain in 1960 is a victim of "urban sprawl," the planless mushrooming of cities. Says Oxford Economist Colin Clark: "There is an area in central England, an oblong, coffin-shaped area, which includes more and more of our population ... If things go on as they are, we shall soon all be in the coffin...
...once lived there (Israel at one time agreed to resettle 100,000 Arabs, but has since withdrawn the offer). The Palestinian Arabs are now wards of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Typical are the 32,235 refugees in UNRWA's Akbet Jaber Camp. a ragged sprawl of mud-brick huts roofed with reeds that is said to be Jordan's fourth largest city...