Word: caucasian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million), tourist attractions (175,000 visitors a year; $65 million), coffee, oranges, beef, coconuts, 900 species of flowering plants and trees. U.S. military forces (60,000) deployed in complex of airfields, Navy and Army bases (Hickam Air Force Base, Pearl Harbor, Schofield Barracks). Pop. 600,000: Japanese (38%), Caucasian (20%), part-Hawaiian (15%), Filipino (13%), Chinese (7%), pure Hawaiian (3%), Puerto Rican and Korean...
...First Point, a wonderfully funny dog story, but most of the tales have the upbeat endings and moral preachments common to slick magazine fiction in the U.S. At their best, the stories are filled with the continuing Russian love of the vast land: there are hard gallops through Caucasian meadows, hunters' frosty dawns, quiet hours in the white nights and birch woods of the north. Without the skill of such masters as Turgenev and Chekhov, the Soviet writers are still modestly working in the same vein of common humanity and still echo the old wonder of life, as when...
...shall be unlawful for any person of the Caucasian or white race to intermarry with any person of the Ethiopian or black race, Malayan or brown race, or Mongolian or yellow race...
...John Sturges, has insisted on everything, and allowed for nothing. He has Tracy running the gamut from the Hollywood equivalent of an El Grecian Christ figure, to the benign, twinkling-eyed mentor of an obnoxious little boy, who takes himself as seriously as the ambitious lead in an amateur Caucasian production of a Japanese morality play...
Catching Up with the East. At the North Caucasian city of Stavropol he loosed a proud thunderbolt: "When the figures for the Soviet Seven-Year-Plan (1959-65) become known, the whole world will be amazed at the prospects of the development of the socialist society." From Trade Union Chief Viktor Grishin in Moscow came a few figures to match, promising to achieve by '65 what had originally been targeted...