Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raise Huskylike white dogs, tell legends of great snows, and will live only above 3,000 ft. More probably, they originated in northern China and were gradually driven south. About 5,000,000 Meos are scattered through Southeast Asia, perhaps 250,000 of them in Laos. They hold a virtual monopoly on the growing of opium and hence are among the more affluent Laotians. They hoard their wealth in massive silver necklaces, worn by all Meo women. Unlike the Buddhist Lao, the Meos have no qualms about killing...
...undergraduate. One of Mrs. Bunting's first tasks at Radcliffe was to create "an atmosphere of expectation," a feeling among 'Cliffies that they are closely connected to the University and its faculty. Similarly, in Krupnick's view, most students are now estranged from their courses because of the virtual absence of productive dialogue between teacher and pupil...
...rodding across the water, many young boatmen have towed water skiers into stumps or other boats; one small lake near San Antonio noted one death per week last summer. At Lake Lavon, near Dallas, speed demons and water skiers thundered down on so many defenseless fishermen that a virtual state of war existed. Shaken, splashed and enraged, the fishermen took to throwing heavy plugs and razored hooks at the water skiers; driven beyond restraint, one fisherman stood in his boat with a shotgun and threatened to blow the next boat that rushed him right out of the water...
...yuan's low estate is dramatic evidence of Peking's virtual bankruptcy and the urgent need to raise hard currency to pay for 233.4 million bu. of Canadian grain ordered last month (TIME...
SURROUNDING the elegant figure of the French painter who calls himself Balthus, there has always been an aura of mystery. He rarely exhibits his work, and he himself lives in virtual seclusion in a gloomy medieval chateau near Autun. He has shunned all of the schools that in successive waves have swept over Paris, but he can claim among his fervent admirers some of the most prestigious names in French art. One admirer is Pablo Picasso, who has a prized Balthus painting of two children in his Vallauris villa. Another is Minister of Culture André Malraux, who three months...