Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desperate effort-to reverse this tide. Red China's masters have switched the line to read "plant more and harvest more." are plugging a crash vegetable-growing program. Kiangsi province has ordered 480,000 civil servants to the farm, Shansi province sent 400,000 "retrenched" industrial and dam workers to the countryside, and Kwangtung province promised 1,000,000 laborers who had "blindly immigrated to the cities." To remedy the fertilizer shortage, commune dwellers are being urged to raise pigs for their own profit, following the slogan: "More pigs, more fertilizer; more fertilizer, more grain; more grain, a future...
...notice") had some been able to follow the Japanese advance. With much fanfare, the retreating British blew up the causeway linking Singapore Island to the mainland. "That should stop the little bastards," muttered one officer, who neglected to notice, as the Japanese did not, that the water at low tide was only four feet deep...
...Communism in the past seven years. "The hinge of the future swings on the U.S.," but the Republicans have let it rust, leaving the nation's principles, prestige and power acreaking. "We have pinned medals upon the chests of hated dictators, furnished weapons to other petty tyrants. A tide of suspicion and hostility rises against us. By failing for too long to implement an imaginative 'food-for-peace' program, this Administration has wrongfully permitted the ugly image to spread of a fat America hoarding food in a hungry world. Somehow we lost, and have yet to recapture...
...door salesman who peddles everything from storm windows to potato chips, fire-alarm systems to vacuum cleaners, diaper sendee to magazine subscriptions. She keeps the checkbook, frets for the day that her husband's next raise will top the flood of monthly bills (it never will)-a tide that never seems to rise as high in the city as it does in the suburbs...
...methods. Something has to give." The truth of the statement was never more clear than in a major report issued last week by President Frank Bowles of the College Entrance Examination Board. Geared to a day when few Americans went to college, the present system has met the rising tide with "a series of improvisations," says Bowles, and is "in a condition of working obsolescence...