Word: take
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then De Gaulle, his manner calm and impersonal, moved on to more delicate ground: "No doubt Soviet Russia, in spite of having aided Communism to take root in China, recognizes that nothing can change the fact that Russia is a white European nation . . . face to face with the yellow masses of China, numberless and impoverished, indestructible and ambitious-a people that is building through trial and hardship a power that cannot be measured and that is already eying the open spaces over which it must one day spread...
Further, he wanted: 1) continuing Soviet proofs of good international intentions; 2) previous agreement among the Western powers "on the questions to be dealt with and the common position they will take on each item"; 3) "personal contact between Mr. Khrushchev and myself." Happily, added the general, Khrushchev has agreed to visit Paris in March. So after that, say in May, a summit meeting would be in order...
...followed since. The people of San Marco live mainly on chestnuts and vegetables, seldom taste meat, except on four feast days each year. Last week the dour and cagey villagers danced self-consciously in the streets before the cameras that had come to record the biggest event ever to take place in San Marco d'Urri...
...help raise the appallingly low standard of living of its people, belatedly hopes to save at least some of its treasure house of antiquities along the Nubian Nile. As a result, it is playing down its habitual nationalist antagonism toward foreign archaeologists. Instead of permitting foreign diggers to take away only a limited amount of their finds, Culture Minister Okasha offers participating governments one-half of all objects unearthed in any new excavations they make in the lands to be flooded.* Further, he promises to give other ancient monuments, not yet designated, to governments providing the most technical and financial...
...struck it richest is Isaac Sabba, 53. The son of Czechoslovakian immigrants who arrived in Manaus when he was 14, he worked on the docks to build capital, started buying and selling jungle produce, branched out into manufacturing ("This country can't develop if we just take things out of it"). Now Sabba's string of eleven corporations is making tin cans and rubber tapping cups, shotgun shells, kraft paper, oil drums, prefabricated houses, dynamite. He distills essential oils, makes leather products, refines and distributes petroleum. He has set up a businessman committee to attract others...