Word: remnants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Italian politics, and was lionized by ordinary Italians for his daring, his nationalism-and his luck. He earned a U.S. Bronze Star as a war-time partisan. Elected to the Chamber of Deputies, he was put in charge of the sputtering state oil monopoly. Unwilling to see this remnant of Fascism dismantled, he disobeyed government orders to liquidate its money-losing properties, instead secretly went on drilling, and in the Po Valley discovered a huge natural-gas field. With fame and profits from the cheaply abundant fuel for boom. Mattei pushed E.N.I. into oil lands in Africa and Asia, laid...
...resurgence of syphilis is partly due to a remnant of the traditional hush-hush attitude toward venereal diseases. Only 5% to 10% of today's youngsters learn anything about VD from their parents, and many learn little more in school...
...woman in the Reichstag by 1919-emancipation on a national scale has come only since the war. The Third Reich borrowed its idea of womanhood from 19th century romanticism, when a German woman was considered "a happy, still oasis, a wellspring of life's poetry, a remnant of paradise." But cleaning up the postwar rubble of man-shy Germany was no job for a still oasis, and women took on a responsibility that has since produced a staggering social revolution...
Last week, as the one-year deadline arrived, 143 judges and prosecutors quit; only 14 stubbornly refused. To remove even this remnant, the government still plans its constitutional amendment...
French influence did not long survive the drawing of the map. Nine years later, with the humiliating defeat of Dienbienphu, France withdrew from Indo-China, and the fledgling state of Laos was on its own, along with the other remnant states of partitioned Indo-China. Independence was complicated by the fact that two Laotian provinces were securely in the hands of Communist Pathet Lao bands under Red Prince Souphanouvong. In 1956 his halfbrother, Prince Souvanna Phouma, was chosen Premier and soon integrated the two Red provinces into the kingdom by giving Souphanouvong a Cabinet post. In a subsequent national election...