Word: according
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...argument is difficult to prove even now, in the so-called aftermath of the war. Yet more than one and a half years after the Paris peace agreement, Sartre's prediction has come true. The U.S. is complicit in--if not directly responsible for--continued violations of the Paris accord. Not only do these violations of the peace treaty, which was called an "Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam," take the form of political and economic oppression, but they are blatantly acts of aggression...
Even so, Bishop believes that Roosevelt got what he wanted at Yalta: agreement, however vague, on how to deal with postwar Germany; Stalin's promise to enter the war against Japan; and an accord on the formation of the United Nations. When Stalin soon broke his promises to let Eastern Europeans choose their own destinies, Roosevelt concluded realistically that there was very little he could have done about it. Discussing Yalta, he told one intimate: "I didn't say it was good. I said it was the best I could...
...response did not echo Kaufmann's optimism. "It is not our intention to make any serious dents in [the men's] practice procedure," Watson responded on November 2. "Are we justified in dismantling established men's programs that have operated in a vigorously competitive atmosphere in order to accord 'equal treatment' to programs which are not really equal in either intensity or dedication...
Their opposite numbers, the degreasers, have a more tenacious problem, accord ing to the Archives of Environmental Health. Degreasers are the men who remove the grease used as a protective coating on machinery and steel cables...
...From his pallid face, the boy expressed the bitter essence of contempt which the weak have for all that is piti less and strong. His mouth made rude noises. His fingers interpreted them . . He slouched away, his feet seeming not in complete accord with his knees. A lurid sunset turned a last sickly smile upon him before it died...