Word: traveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Middle-Class Grumbling. Opposition to Trujillo comes mostly from the middle and upper classes-about a quarter of the population of 2,800,000. "These people travel and have broader knowledge," explains a foreign resident in Ciudad Trujillo. "They hate to take orders. They live well but insecurely...
Winston is a builder at heart, and wherever he goes-in more than 200,000 miles of travel a year-he preaches the need of more home building. He is convinced that good housing is the best insurance against Communism ("People want to divide what you've got, not what they've got"), even believes that it is the cure for such social ills as alcoholism. ("Mendes-France would have cut out a lot more drinking had he built homes instead of trying to persuade Frenchmen to drink milk.") Winston has plenty of housetops to preach from. Outside...
Meanwhile the University staff will conduct research into dust layers in a portion of the earth's atmosphere, especially through examination of the sun's rays at twilight. This is considered of possible importance to future space travel...
Last week, faced by dissension from those who wanted a more intensive leftism, Mollet told a party congress: "If tomorrow the party wishes to form other policies, for example, a foreign policy called neutralism, or domestically, to travel part of the road with the Communists, then it will be someone beside myself who will make these policies...
...every road, armed with hypodermic needles to head off the cholera which used to sweep through Puri after the festival. Holy men, their naked | bodies smeared with ashes, and the "walking dead" (lepers and the congenitally deformed) begged their way through the crowds. Along the route the gods would travel peddlers hawked souvenirs. And through the shrill mass moved boys with water buckets and bicycle pumps to spray the sea of heads in the searing heat...