Word: aggressive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will to use it, so that the Communist use of force would obviously be unprofitable to them. I emphasize both the power and the will, for one without the other is useless. Also, that will must be sufficiently manifest that potential aggressors will calculate that they could not aggress without disaster to themselves...
...military bias." Too many U.S. officials have fallen into the habit of measuring progress (or security) exclusively by the number of nuclear explosions, the number of divisions mobilized. The result is that the U.S. is stuck with a warlike vocabulary (e.g., "massive retaliation"), while the Communists, who continue to aggress, have stolen the words of peace (e.g., "coexistence...
...this theory were true, Stone reasoned, football players after a really bloody and satisfying scrimmage would be far less aggressive-minded than before a practice, or after the season was over when they could no longer aggress freely. To test this hypothesis he used Thematic Apperception Tests (known affectionately as TATs) to find out their aggressiveness...
During the season, the players and controls showed just about the same amount of aggressiveness. After the season, the football players fell abruptly, in spite of the fact that they now no longer had the opportunity to aggress easily...