Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four nations account for 50% of Latin America's people. Brazil, under destiny-conscious President Juscelino Kubitschek, is surging with a great industrial spree, marred by a possibly ruinous inflation. In Argentina, President Arturo Frondizi, sacrificing popularity and his oldtime leftist principles, is taking Argentina along the harsh, bitter road of hard work and self-denial, back from the handout, statist economics of Dictator Peron. In Chile, bachelor President Alessandri is trying to get Chile back to financial solvency by raising production and cutting away government deadwood. The runaway welfare state of Uruguay, pushed by Benito Nardone...
...heart of the book. The unloved manager of a coal mine is knocked on the head and tumbled into a river one dark night. There is ample reason for doing him in; the strike, a disastrous eruption in 1926, has been bitter, the manager was a harsh boss, and he has been slipping up the back stairs to visit the wife of one of the miners...
...both the North and the South last week, the harsh caw of Jim Crow was raised in triumph in two cases of racial discrimination having to do with public parks...