Word: wrecking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fidel Castro's gift last week was another shrill speech, in which he threatened the entire world with economic aggression if the U.S. does not buy Cuban sugar. If other suppliers fill the gap in the U.S., cried Castro, he will wreck the trade by dumping sugar. If he meant what he said, he would also wreck the economy of Cuba, the world's largest exporter...
Master Stroke. At war's end. Hong Kong was a wreck. Its harbor facilities had been destroyed by bombings, and two-thirds of its population had fled. The colony was flooded with worthless currency called "duress notes," which the Japanese had forced the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. to issue. The British acted boldly: with the help of the local government and the Bank of England, the corporation redeemed every duress note at face value-an operation costing $30 million. "A master stroke," sighed one relieved financier. "Nothing did more to restore Hong Kong's prestige so quickly...
...same kind of rigidity in colonial affairs has affected economic progress before, and may possibly wreck it eventually. After the Korean War, when the U.S. satisfied itself with a stalemate armistice, Georges Bidault insisted on victory in Indochina. "Resistance," or"immobilisme" was again the theme in dealings with Morocco and Tunisia, a policy which Aron explains by recalling French fears of another Munich or Vichy. The same fears have prevented the transfer of the rest of the empire, Algeria, into nationalist hands...
When he took over the "wreck" of Washington, D.C.'s integrated public schools 2½ years ago, Superintendent Carl F. Hansen confounded pessimists everywhere by raising academic standards higher than they had been under segregation (TIME. Feb. 1). His latest innovation may do even more to revolutionize the capital's educational system. Called Amidon School, it is a determined effort to resolve the longstanding war between "basic" and ''progressive" education by developing a curriculum that combines the best of both...
Scheduled to follow Bayar was former Premier Adnan Menderes, a hollow-eyed, sunken-cheeked wreck of his once plump and sleek self. In a barely audible voice, he earlier told the court he had been kept in solitary confinement for more than four months, had been allowed only 27 minutes with a defense lawyer two days before the trial. Complained Menderes: "My nerves are shattered." The main charge against him was "activities contrary to the constitution." But the first specific was that he had fathered a child by a Turkish opera singer, and then had given orders to kill...