Word: tremors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...villagers had time to flee, scores of people were crushed to death in cascades of masonry in such neighboring towns as Montevago, Gibellina, Santa Margherita di Belice, Salemi and Santa Ninfa. Montevago's lawyer, along with five companions, perished trying to race the tremors in his tiny Fiat. The town's doctor died on his way to save his mother. The earthquake was by far Italy's worst since 75,000 people were killed at the other end of tremor-prone Sicily 60 years ago. The toll: as many as 500 people dead, more than...
With less money available to borrow, all sections of the economy will feel the pinch. But as the Fed intended, it will be modest. Even the stock and bond markets, normally the first to react strongly to tighter money, took the news without a noticeable tremor because both had been expecting...
...most important consequence "would be the psychological and political impact of our defeat." The nations of South and Southeast Asia, he writes, "would feel much less secure if the U.S. were forced to admit defeat at the hands of Communist insurgents. Such an outcome would send a massive psychological tremor through all these countries, further threatening their stability and perhaps sharply shifting their present international orientation." A U.S. defeat, he believes, "would seem to be proof positive of the Maoist doctrine that what the Communists call 'wars of national liberation' are irresistible...
...TREMOR OF INTENT, by Anthony Burgess. This lively tale of espionage is only trompe I'oeil; behind it flows the broad seriocomic vein that is the source of all of Burgess...
...TREMOR OF INTENT, by Anthony Burgess. An ordinary spy plot becomes a novel of unusual depth, thanks to Burgess' memorable characterization...