Word: rational
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such basic industries as mining and steel, give Moscow top priority for East German manufactures. East German food production has fallen sharply in the past twelve months. Potatoes, once a staple, have been imported from the uncollectivized farms of Communist Poland; last week meat and sausage went on the ration list, to join butter, which has been strictly allocated for 18 months. For complainers, there was the ever-present fear of a Communist jail cell or a Communist pistol...
Eager as the world's press was to help Hollywood to the glory of blame ("Sodom!" cried Libération from Paris), it could not match Hollywood's own enthusiasm for its role as the guilty...
...vigorously assisted the heavenly host by nationalizing Roman Catholic schools, the Bank of Ceylon, transport services, life insurance and the Port of Colombo. Last week the Prime Minister touched off one of the biggest government crises since she took office by announcing a 25% cut in the rice ration. In yet another attempt to ease Ceylon's formidable economic woes, her government last April seized almost 200 gas stations and oil depots owned by a trio of U.S. and British firms (Esso, Caltex, Burmah-Shell). Total value of expropriated properties: $20 million...
Tough, able Sergeant Riglioni, himself only fitfully rational, blurredly watches the breakup. It takes the form of a mania for light. At night, huddled sleeplessly in bomb-crushed cellars, the men crave candles. They try scraping wax from ration boxes, but the lights they make burn only for seconds. Then a replacement shows up, squeamish in combat but eerily skillful at finding large quantities of wax. He guards his secret, but the obsessed men find it out: the wax comes from holy figures in household shrines and churches...
...night, Albert M. Sacks, professor aw, who is a member of the come and one of the signers of the ration, explained that the advertise was not placed as the result of any se of crisis or emergency" but was ned as a community education mea to show that "in any given neighbor of the town there would be support he idea of housing without discrimination...