Word: uplifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fleet couriers hopped on horse or camel, or jumped into autos or motorboats, to hurry to the nearest telegraph office. Many Pakistan electors decorated their ballots with Urdu or Bengali verses in praise of Sandhurst-trained Field Marshal Ayub, attached bills and checks payable to Ayub's favorite uplift projects, or simply wrote: "I love Ayub." So little suspense was involved that Karachi's leading daily, Dawn, published full details on President Ayub's plans for his inaugural three days before he was even elected and five days before the votes were officially...
Express the Uplift. Rudolph last year completed his second major building, Yale's Greeley Forestry Laboratory. To dramatize the strength of precast concrete, Rudolph opened up the capitals until they became widespread Ys. He winced when his building was promptly dubbed the "concrete orchard," but insisted stubbornly: "A column is really holding something up. It should express this uplift...
...Minister Kwame Nkrumah, himself a graduate of the U.S.'s Lincoln University, denounces it for costliness (160 senior teachers for 650 students), frets because the predominantly British faculty holds out for classical education against the practicalities that Nkrumah favors. Yet the college sparks Ghana's drive to uplift education at all levels, a model for Africa to ponder...