Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wives Caught Young. Where the new freedom was accepted, it ran riot. The urban women of China began streaming in droves to the divorce courts, whose business soon amounted to one-third of all civil litigation in some parts of the country. The simplicity of severing marriage ties led inevitably to a further disregard of their importance, and illicit love affairs bloomed on every side. Naturally enough, this interfered considerably with the work of the state, what with intra-factory jealousies and unexpected pregnancies. Country girls, seeking a better mate than the local lout behind the plow, began flocking...
...will remain tied to France." The Sultan retaliated by always meeting Juin unshaven and by committing himself wholeheartedly to the Istiqlal, smuggling leaders into the palace, sometimes in trucks delivering groceries. In the classic divide-and-conquer style. Juin assiduously cultivated the antagonism of the mountain Berbers for the urban Arabs. He made a special ally of rich old El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech, who claimed to command some 300,000 fighting Berbers...
Delivering the closing address of a two-day conference on urban design, Gropius noted that although scientific progress has brought the nation abundant physical and materialistic well-being, there has as yet been little effort towards producing planned communities with "an attractive and sociable pattern...
Gruen called for more complete rehabilitation projects, and showed slides with plans for the ideal city. With 80 million cars expected on the road by 1967, he said, present urban forms were no longer practical. Citing the statistic that one person is killed or injured every six minutes, he urged "a peaceful co-existence between automobiles and the human race...
...difficulty in present urban forms, Gruen said, is that the twofold purposes of streets--providing shopping centers as well as a rapid flow of traffic--are antithetical. According to his plan, residential "clusters" of buildings would form "constellations" around a social center. Traffic would emerge from these clusters into "freeways," and then into large loop and belt arteries...