Word: torpid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rescue squad arriving barely in time. The international monetary system was like a man who falls off a cliff and lands on a tree on the way down-bruised and shaken, but alive and susceptible to recovery. More auspiciously, the bankers' decision gave new urgency to the hitherto torpid efforts to turn the creaking system of international exchange into something better fit for today's world...
...wherewithal to finance world trade will shrink by $4 billion over the next twelve months as a result of the British and U.S. retrenchments. That is precisely the amount by which the reserves of the six Common Market countries rose during 1967. Thus continental Europe, which managed only a torpid 2.5% economic growth last year, is in a strong position for a shift to deficit spending, government pump priming, and measures to hold down interest rates. By such means, marks, francs and guilders would help to replace the pounds and dollars no longer available to bankroll trade and investment...
...March, they chased out the island's chief administrator. Two months later, armed Anguillans ousted the 15-man police force and rolled out oil drums on the little Anguilla airstrip to make sure that they did not return. As occasional shooting continued to flare up in the torpid Caribbean nights, Bradshaw appealed to Britain to help quell the insurrection, but the foreign office said it was an internal matter. Last week the Anguillans tried a new tack: they declared their independence of Britain and asked to be put under U.S. rule. Hardly eager to field that small...
...Intruders. Even with this chastening experience, Schlesinger might still be accused of a tendency to tidy things up. His basic view of his and Kennedy's thousand days was the clash between the New Frontiersmen in the White House and the torpid bureaucracies. "The Presidential government, coming to Washington aglow with new ideas and a euphoric sense that it could not go wrong, promptly collided with the feudal barons of the permanent government, entrenched in their domains and fortified by their sense of proprietorship." The result, he said, was that the permanent government "began almost to function...
...chief truth to emerge from Indifference is that Director Francesco Maselli and a random assemblage of famous players have marooned themselves in a torpid adaptation of Alberto Moravia's first novel, published in 1929. A young beauty (Claudia Cardinale) and her brother (Tomas Milian) struggle vainly to find meaning or purpose in existence. Mother (Paulette Goddard, in a series of unflattering closeups) is a faded gentlewoman whose unscrupulous lover (Rod Steiger) has entered a bid for Claudia and the family estates. Meanwhile, an aging adventuress (Shelley Winters) arduously lures young Tomas to her bed. He acquiesces at last because...