Word: afar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist role of Government is limited at best, and his lopsided account of cold war history implies that the U.S. Government in spite of all its efforts has had no successes at all against Communism. Wrote Schwarz: "The time has come for people to cease looking for great organizations afar off, and to begin looking for things that can be done close at home. Every man who invites a friend into his home, gives him literature to read, and informs him of the danger, is helping to thwart the Communist program." Citizens so educated and so inspired can carry...
...urgency of fear that forged NATO's first army has long vanished; so has the invulnerability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent that so long buttressed NATO's troops from afar...
Leaning against the doorpost I strain to see afar in time The fate that waits our present age . . . The Pharisees exult. How hard This life, and long my way of stone...
...progressed through France's heavily leftist south, local Communists, augmented by busloads of comrades from afar, took over key positions along his route and at prearranged signals waved red flags and chanted admiring slogans. In Marseille, where the shouts were loudest, Khrushchev Son-in-Law (and Izvestia Editor) Alexei Adzhubei admiringly remarked to Soviet Propaganda Boss Leonid Ilyichev: "Comrade, you always handle the Agitprop well!" Spiking the Canon. Clicking away insatiably, Soviet cameramen captured scenes of enthusiasm designed to convince movie audiences behind the Iron Curtain that all France had embraced Nikita...