Word: timorous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industry is stagnant and the country's infrastructure is outdated. Per capita income is $400 a year, the illiteracy rate 40%. Though the economy is underdeveloped, Salazar has clung grimly to an increasingly costly empire; its colonies extend as far as Macao on the Chinese coast and Portuguese Timor in the East Indies. Tiny Portugal is cast in the unlikely role of Africa's last major colonial power. With 125,000 troops fighting three little-publicized wars in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea, the country spends 40% of its budget on defense...
...Timor Mortis conturbat me," wrote the 15th century Scottish poet William Dunbar, and he continued...
...they will not listen. Kennedy and the Democrats may listen--if approached, not if ignored. Nobody will listen if the liberals merely sit back--"above politics"--and refuse to contribute in any meaningful way to the fulfillment of a liberal program--refuse, indeed, to do anything but cry out, "Timor mortis conturbat me!," while at the same time inviting destruction through lack of meaningful effort to prevent...
Amidst the dry, gum-tree scrub of Rum Jungle, 60 miles inland from the Timor Sea, miners clad only in boots and shorts drilled uranium out of soft slate. At Woomera, where the waterless South Australian plain stretches endlessly off to the horizon, romantically named drones and missiles-Jindiviks, Blue Streaks and Black Knights-soared over the free world's largest land rocket range. In beach-girt Sydney, schoolteachers and tram conductors exchanged stock market tips, and in stately Adelaide, where Australia's first major Festival of the Arts was in full swing, T. S. Eliot...
...more glum and irritable. But as he descended from his silvery Ilyushin-18 turboprop at Djakarta's sun-drenched airport last week, Nikita was met by close to 100,000 people, including brilliantly costumed groups from the outlying islands of the Indonesian nation: pretty girls in sarongs, from Timor; Maduran farmers with rice scythes; barelegged hunters from Borneo. It was an arranged welcome, and less than Communist Ho Chi Minh got a year ago. Still, it looked promising to Khrushchev...