Word: weltering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prejudice and frustration that arise when German meets Tunisian in the Promised Land. This is a remarkable article (hopefully Cowan will expand it into a book) not only because it is that rare thing, objective reporting, but also and principally because it is so original. In all the welter and multiplication of books on Israel, hardly a word touches on real social issues. Fine political reporting appears now and then, and there is a constant barrage of rosy statistics aimed at contributors to the United Jewish Appeal, but Cowan gives the reader an unvarnished look at life from...
Hard & Solid. The signs of the economy's new strength were obvious in a welter of statistics that set new records in industrial production, personal income (average: $1,850 per person after taxes), new orders for manufacturers and em ployment. But nowhere were the signs more manifest than in the attitude of the nation's most important economic ingredient: people. Buyers returning to Wall Street last week sent the Dow-Jones industrial average surging to 711.68 at week's end, its highest close since last spring. Consumers are crowding into department stores and auto showrooms, in April...
...again, the cherished dream of Arab oneness has been shattered on the irrationality of Arab behavior, on personal rivalries, ambitions, class differences and complicated Levantine intrigues. Amid shouts of Arab joy, Egypt and Syria forged the United Arab Republic in 1958, only to see it collapse in a welter of bickering three years later. During the past five weeks of negotiations in Cairo, rumors spread of wrangling and dissension between Nasser on one side and the Syrian and Iraqi leaders of the Socialist Baath Party on the other. Both picked at the "festering wound" caused by Baath's breakup...
Whether dealing with men like Pulteney, or discussing such better known figures as Charles Townsend or George III, Namier builds his historical writing on a welter of details and quotations. Yet Namier's prose does more than merely link together the treasures unearthed by his scholarship. It often takes on a sparkle completely its own--"Still George III clung... like a molusc (a molusc who never found his rock)." But Namier is an historical technician as well as a prose artist. The special merit of Namier's work is that the reader is placed as close to the evidence...
...Alianza credit, Arosemena's government is underwriting an industry-luring program that includes tax exemptions. During the last month, more than 20 small foreign companies got approval of their plans to invest in Ecuador. The government passed a more equitable income tax law, and hopes to eliminate a welter of other tax laws that permit Congress to allot 48% of total federal revenues to "autonomous agencies" such as the Red Cross, universities, private schools and sports clubs. The government is moving ahead with a program to push roads into lush but unused lands near the coast, educating farmers from...