Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Castro also admitted that the revolution's dreams of rapid industrialization will have to wait. Agriculture, he said, "will be the base of our economy" for the next decade. "Why hurry to make a steel industry now when there are other more urgent things to be done?" Among the urgent tasks is the restoration of Cuban agriculture to the production levels it reached under capitalism. Last week the official Havana newspaper Hoy reported glumly that the 1963 sugar crop is the smallest since...
...world turned brown," cried Coffee Farmer Soguro Saito, who lost 5,000 of his 9,000 trees to the wind. Worried Coffeegrower Raimundo Pereira complained bitterly: "The cold wind that ruined my trees has no pity." Thousands of ruined farmers will have to wait two years to harvest another coffee crop, but, in Brazil's one-crop economy, the wind also meant hardship for countless others. Dozens of coffee-roasting plants and wholesale buyers will have nothing to work with; truckers will have nothing to haul; laborers on the large plantations will be laid...
...limitation, which excludes living writers of poetry and fiction, does not harm the library nearly so much as the first stricture. All the same, it is an unnecessary restriction. Presumably, the White House did not want to involve itself in any tiresome little literary wars, and therefore decided to wait until poets and novelists are safely dead and buried before venturing to choose among them. If this was their reasoning, though, why didn't they exclude living political scientists and historians, too? In the academic world, where publishing a book is a condition of existence, professional jealousies, if anything...
...these pieces take the form of semi-scholarly comments on Japanese history. "It's my field, after all," he added with a smile. These articles, however, are only popularizations of ideas he had when he still owned a stall in Widener. Original research and serious writing will have to wait until he leaves the government...
While I still like the 'Cliffie and may want to date her in the fall, I have almost fallen in love with her roommate from Smith. I think this girl, call her Sally, likes me, but I don't know how to handle the relationship. If I wait until next fall when she goes back to Smith she may think I really don't like her, but if I take her out now the 'Cliffie may be hurt...