Word: rational
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offering Algeria a free choice of three alternatives-independence, integration with France, or home rule under France's wing-France's President Charles de Gaulle had conceded the principle of self-determination for which the rebel Front de Libération Nationale claimed to be fighting. The result was that most of the world could no longer see any reason for further bloodshed in Algeria...
...pass itself, the path is in some places less than 6 ft. wide, bounded by rising cliffs on one side, sheer 1,000-ft. drops on the other. In the first four days of the trek, Jumbo lost 300 lbs., but cheerfully contrived to put away her daily food ration of 150 lbs. of hay, 50 lbs. of apples, 40 lbs. of bread, 20 lbs. of carrots and half a pound of vitamin B. Hannibal's elephants never had it so good...
...July 6). And at the very moment that Shanghai was boasting that each of its inhabitants would be getting nearly four times as much food this year, travelers reported that even in the best hotels meat and eggs were hard to come by, and that in other cities the ration of meat, sugar and fish had been cut. As for Red China's great "leap forward" in steel, to a large extent accomplished by backyard amateur furnaces for smelting pig iron, Peking's official People's Daily was now complaining that some provinces of the country were...
...spectacular but dead Stalinallee. And with a total automobile production last year of 36,000, East Germany still has a long way to go to catch up economically with West Germany, which produced more than 1,000,000. But it has been a year since East Germans needed ration cards to buy food...
...Aggressor troops (Russian-like insignia and uniforms) across 50 miles of tangled underbrush. By map and compass they traveled at night, kept on alert all day (about two hours' sleep each), set off live explosive near TVA's Blue Ridge Dam. For food they had one C-ration can, a share in a live chicken. (New problem for the city-bred: how to kill and cook it.) They had learned in earlier problems to live on snake meat in Florida's Everglades, cross open country on a run (about five miles every 40 minutes). Sent to tactical...