Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generals who had not yet been brought in on the coup, reasoned the conspirators, could be won over by Big Minh right there at the luncheon table; if they refused, they would find themselves virtual prisoners in the plotters' well-guarded headquarters...
...Crimson team was in a virtual state of shock after the meet. Captain Ed Meehan had finished seventh, his worst performance in any meet for more than a year, and junior star Bill Crain stumbled home ninth...
...Virtual Monopoly. The French giant began life in 1826 as a bookstore opened by one Louis Hachette at No. 12 Rue Pierre-Sarrazin in Paris' Latin Quarter. Louis Hachette died in 1864, a substantial success. The site of his bookstore is now surrounded by eight buildings erected by his descendants...
...publish books. But its distribution system had already proved useful in delivering the Paris press. And when the war ended it was inevitable that the dailies, after unsuccessfully trying to distribute on their own, should turn again to Hachette. Soon Hachette was delivering 80% of all newspapers. This virtual monopoly may have encouraged Hachette to get into newspapering on its own. Today it overshadows Paris' afternoon newspaper field, with France-Soir (circ 1,350,000), and Paris-Presse (150,000), Hachette also publishes three Paris weeklies, ranging in size from France-Dimanche...
...Senses. A onetime lawyer, soldier and economics professor, Paz is short and swarthy, with gentle brown eyes and a friendly humor. Yet in 1952, he led a social revolution that emancipated the population from virtual serfdom and crushed the power of the army. In its early days, like Mexico's PRI in the first stages of the Mexican revolution, Paz's National Revolutionary Movement operated with a heavy hand, sending its enemies to concentration camps or into exile. Today, though it is plagued by entrenched party politicians ("Tammany Hall," Paz calls them), the party probably speaks...