Word: sure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...powerful Chinese community, numbering about 2,500,000 and controlling much of the Indonesian economy, was sure that Sukarno's drastic measures were directed against it. The public seemed to like the idea of soaking the rich and the alien, while leading newspapers agreed that at least something drastic had to be done. But as business, with no capital to operate, ground to a standstill, the first reaction to Sukarno's bold move was stagnation and frustration...
...Rojas). Under the renegotiated arrangement, the 22 U.S. experts will be trimmed to eight, and the U.S. contribution to Guatemala's farm improvement will drop from $500,000 annually to $300,000. Marroquin Rojas cracked, "What's the crying about?" and told La Hora readers to be sure to read The Ugly American...
Dread of impending shame weighed with crushing force on Cheng Guan Lim, Chinese engineering student at the University of Michigan. He was doing badly in physics and math, thought he was sure to flunk out. Soon there would be nothing for it but to leave school, quit his job as janitor at Ann Arbor's First Methodist Church, and take the humiliating news back to his schoolteacher father in Singapore. Finally, one day in October 1955, Cheng disappeared. His friends, including the Rev. Eugene Ransom, pastor of the church, called in police. They found no clues...
European automen are sure that Flick yearns to grow still bigger. They buzz that he is working toward a merger with a major French or Italian automaker to dominate the car industry in the European Common Market. He has had Daimler buy preferred shares that can be converted into 5% of Studebaker-Packard Corp., his U.S. distributor. But a key factor in Daimler-Benz's plans will be the effect of the new U.S. compact cars on Mercedes' vital U.S. sales. Daimler-Benz is less worried than most other European car makers. Says President Fritz Konecke: "Our appeal...
...short stories are almost entirely in the first person. Anderson's "I" can be any member of the Jessup family, around which most of the stories are woven, or any of their friends, and there are moments of confusion, when it is difficult to be sure just who is who. Yet the device gives full play to Anderson's strongest talent: his grasp of the speech rhythm and idiom of his people. More clearly than in much fiction, it is in the telling that the truth of the tale emerges...