Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cornelia Wheeler, member of the Cambridge Civic Association, said she was primarily concerned about the "implied threat to all of Cambridge's use of the river." Bernays commented that an expressway would be a virtual wall between Harvard and the Charles...
...African nations that have achieved independence since the end of World War II (25 in 1960-63 alone), more than half have been racked by severe political and economic convulsions, ranging from the bloody civil wars of the Congo to virtual bankruptcy in Guinea to the assassination of a President in Togo. Under moderate leaders like Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and Tanganyika's Julius Nyerere, independence has brought stability. Under Red-hot redeemers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, it has sometimes brought political repression and financial ruin...
Campaigning in a parliamentary by-election, Mrs. Bandaranaike ventured into the countryside, where she had once been a virtual mother image. Now, angered by the acute textile shortage that grips the nation, villagers greeted her by appearing in plain breechcloth instead of their usual sarongs and saris. When the votes were counted last week, the government candidate ran a poor third, reducing her bitterly divided Sri Lanka Freedom Party to 77 seats in the 157-member Parliament. To stay in power, the Prime Minister-who is also her own Minister of Defense, Foreign Affairs and Information-has increasingly relied...
...docks, which has mushroomed into a sympathy walkout by more than 13,000 other white-collar workers. Warehouses bulge with millions of pounds of unsold rubber and tea. Many of the vast plantations cannot meet their weekly payrolls because they are short of cash. Foreign trade is at a virtual standstill. As the Cabinet leveled a back-to-work ultimatum at the strikers last week, Colombo buzzed with rumors that Mrs. Bandaranaike could only remain in office by declaring a state of national emergency...
...applied for an extension of his term. By tradition, approval should have been almost automatic. So much about high-court New York judgeships is automatic that it is a tradition around the courthouse that they all but offer a lifetime job. Election to one 14-year term carries a virtual promise of endorsement by both political parties should the judge decide to run again...