Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Just Like a Woman" is one of the very exciting things we have to deal with. Natural, seemingly without artifice but for a few lines, this is Dylan's tenderest humanism since "North Country Blues" (Opus 3). It defines with sincere concern and virtual clairvoyance the girl-woman, innocence-experience, stage of ambivalent transition. Its chorus echoes simply...
...prices, now 72?, and Peru-based companies followed suit. Last week Chile again hiked its price, this time to 70?. In the U.S., the Administration has held the price at 36? by a combination of presidential arm-twisting, massive releases from Government stockpiles, subsidies to mining companies, and a virtual ban on exports...
Under Suharto, the nation that last year was a virtual Peking satellite has become a vigorous foe of Red China. It has called off its senseless, undeclared war against Malaysia and revived its friendships with other neighbors. It has halted the economy-wrecking prestige projects that Sukarno so dearly loved. And in an orgy of flashing knives and coughing guns, it has virtually wiped out the Partai Komunis Indonesia (P.K.I.) -which under Sukarno had grown to be the third largest Communist Party in the world...
False Hopes. Everything, in fact, seemed to be going the Reds' way. Under the skilled hand of Secretary-General Dipa Nusantara Aidit, the P.K.I, had risen from virtual oblivion after a 1948 coup attempt to a membership of 3,000,000-not including the 14 million members of its labor and youth fronts. At the suggestion of Chou Enlai, Sukarno had given the green light for a massive People's Militia, which the Communists intended to use to contain the army-their only possible rival in any struggle for power. In addition, they were infiltrating the army...
...into the corner and cry your eyes out. But be at the airport." Giap went. But such emotional outbursts led Ho to leave Giap at home when he went off to Fontainebleau to negotiate with the French. While Ho was away, Giap was virtual dictator, and he used the time with ruthless efficiency to execute hundreds of nationalist-but non-Communist-leaders. He had always been opposed to a negotiated peace with the French. When the Fontainebleau talks failed, Giap was delighted, and his eight-year war against Paris got under...