Word: vir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Major new investments in the chemical industry are sure to force a cutback in consumer production, housing, possibly defense; but the situation on Russian farms warrants it. Yields this year have been poor in the Ukraine and Siberia. Last week the administrator for the Vir gin Lands, Khrushchev's pet farm project, openly admitted disaster in his regions as well, citing staggering examples of mismanagement and inefficiency...
...tone, passionate but restrained, using poetry as both a special ceremony and a daily occurrence. Ironically, to a great many of Britain's younger poets, among them Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, D. J. Enright and Elizabeth Jennings -sometimes collectively known as "The Movement"-Graves's old-fashioned vir tues seem highly contemporary. Writes British Critic Walter Allen: "It is as though the world has caught up with Graves so that, mysteriously, he even appears as one of the young...
Actually, if religion is to become a key issue, it will probably be in West Vir ginia's two southernmost election districts (most of the state's 95,000 Catholics live in the four central and northern districts). "We don't expect the Bible Belt preachers to hold meetings and pledge their congregations against Kennedy as they did to Al Smith," said a politician last week, "and we don't expect crosses to be burned in the hinterland, but the preachers will be talking and so will their congregations." Humphrey's backers have already made...