Word: wake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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EVERY year, the old man orders that his birthday be officially ignored, and every year it is celebrated as a national holiday. Early this week, in the wake of a stinging repudiation by the assembled nations of the world, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was to observe his 84th birthday, and so the presidential office building in Taipei was decorated with pine trees and long noodles, both symbols of longevity. An army chorus of 10,000 men gathered to sing Long Live the President. Some 20,000 others prepared to chant the same message from the mountains of southern Taiwan...
...come only to bolster Fidel's feelings? The best guess was that the Soviet Premier, who keeps watch over Moscow's foreign economic arrangements while Leonid Brezhnev supervises its broader foreign relations, had stopped by to see how Cuba's economy is holding up in the wake of disappointing sugar harvests. Soviet aid to Cuba now totals half a billion dollars annually, and during Kosygin's visit a dozen Soviet freighters and tankers in old Havana harbor were unloading the oil and cargo without which Castro's regime can scarcely survive...
...progressive" move and not realize that only industrialized nations with high-cost manufactured goods progress in a tariff-free market economy. You may deplore the life style of South American peasants and forget the cheap price of bananas and the high dividends on your copper stock. But when you wake up, and see that your comforts are based on the misery of others, and that the still greater comforts of others are based on the misery of all--then, does the American Dream explode? And does the Great Society explode with...
...confessional." The bar owner says that he is content running a small place with a steady profit and with hearing the confessions of his regulars, but he ends his speech with a quiet despair disguised as complacency: "I'll die in the night and I hope it don't wake me up, that I just slip away, quietly." Something is drastically wrong with the whole fabric of society; the bar's one contact with the outside world all evening comes when the doctor goes to deliver a dead baby in a trailer cord. He allows the mother to hemorrhage...
...wage earners at all levels are demanding pay increases in order to meet higher taxes and spiraling living costs (an 11% increase so far this year). Postal workers deliver the mail at a snail's pace. Grocers recently struck to protest Israel's 20% devaluation in the wake of U.S. economic moves. Customs inspectors have disrupted the export-import trade with brief but frequent strikes. Even hospital staffs and lifeguards have walked off their jobs temporarily. Lost work days were few compared to other nations, but the strikes were highly visible...