Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene is London, and Nick Jenkins is still the sad Seeing-Eye dog for a troupe (if that can be imagined) of comic blind men. Stringham, a once-brilliant fellow and his close friend at school, is now under virtual house arrest as an alcoholic by his sister's former governess. Widmer-pool, a great comic creation who represents Business in Powell's mind, has soared to the skirts of Mrs. Simpson's "set." The Tolland family, whose head is Lord Warminster, illustrates the vast confusion of the British ruling class at the time. ("I haven...
...Japanese people, said the journalist, dislike the "virtual extra-territoriality" that Japan grauts for U.S. bases, plus the absence of any Japanese control over nuclear weapons stored there. As the day for ratification of the treaty grew near, millions of Japanese saw it as "not a security, but a danger treaty...
...virtual teetotaler, Picasso sometimes takes a little wine with meals, customarily sips water at his own champagne fiestas...
...clever Kikuyu; and for the majestic (6 ft. 6 in.) but backward Watutsi of Ruanda-Urundi, education and all the talk of one-manone-vote sounds suspiciously like the death knell for four centuries of unchal lenged supremacy over the fast-rising politically conscious Bahutu, who have long been virtual serfs...
Adnan Menderes, the man who walked bloody but unbroken from a 1959 plane crash that killed fifteen, was not the man to moderate his ways in such an hour. Next day he went on the air to charge the Republicans with virtual treason. The students, he said, had become "tools of conspirators" and "fanatic party followers." He called their demonstrations "plots against the country's security." "They will soon learn," he said in his disarmingly soft voice, "what it means to stand against the state." In the morning, the Premier visited Ankara student dormitories-and got no back talk...