Word: throughout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THIS means the great landed estates will be broken up throughout Latin America," said a top U.S. sugar broker last week, as Fidel Castro signed his agrarian reform decree. The Castro bill quickened Latin America's deep yearning to reap a better living from underdeveloped land. The Venezuelan Cabinet, for example, moved ahead with a land reform bill...
Moscow-based news contingent, Pravda keeps 60 fulltime correspondents scattered throughout Russia, another 28 in world capitals. The paper controls a sanitarium, five Moscow apartment buildings, a secondary school, a school for printers, and the Pravda House of Culture. Its mammoth printing plant-49 Linotypes, 5,000 employes-harvests a handsome profit by printing 20 other newspapers and magazines on contract...
...when most other funds shunned it as a prince-and-pauper industry, saw its hopes for steel realized when the value of its investment grew from $65 million to $142 million. When the recession began in 1957, M.I.T. reckoned that it would be brief. It stayed in growth stocks throughout, now needs little portfolio shifting for the economic recovery...
...doubt are meant to sound, like ads for Rosicrucianism ("large increments of love are released that are fermenting in the Fertile Void"). What emerges is an allegory on whatever the reader chooses-the perversity of man, the bright illusion of love, the red-eyed aurochs of war. Dotted throughout the book are moon-mad digressions-a plan to enroll farm boys in the Joy Scouts of America, hike them into Harlem for instruction in reefer rolling; a 14-page hypothesis, mostly in verse, on why Ireland is underpopulated (it wasn't the snakes, Goodman theorizes, that nearsighted St. Patrick...
...other game in which the Crimson demonstrated consistent lacrosse was the season's final against Yale--and even then the varsity defeated itself with some horrendous lacrosse in the first period. But throughout the rest of the game the defense checked harder than it had all season, and the whole team played well. Although the varsity lost 9 to 4, it outscored the Elis 4 to 3 in the last three periods...