Word: aligning
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...implication is that education which takes a detached view of life and society, that never leads students to face issues . . . tends to produce men and women who are spectators rather than actors . . . They view both sides of questions with equanimity, seeing the strengths and weaknesses of each . . . but never align themselves with either of the contending forces. Surely the effective citizen . . . must be willing to stand up and be counted, to make a commitment, to throw his weight on the side of truth...
...conflict was the most predictable result of all. The three months of campaigning were part of a crisis in U.S. history, part of a deep struggle to align the U.S. with the responsibilities, opportunities and dangers of the newest phase of its existence-world leadership in the cold war with Communism. The presidential election would be a fraud itself if it did not somehow reflect this conflict...
Studying this method, Land realized that the process might work better on the molecular scale. He finally worked out a means in which a sheet of polyvinyl alcohol a thick plastic--was stretched. In the stretching, the molecules of the plastic would align themselves with their poles in the same direction. Land had a cheap, permanent device that was far more efficient, both in the transmission and the exclusion of light, than was its crystal predecessor...
...wording are only a matter of semantics and easily straightened out. Many Europeans, hungry for easy solutions, seemed unwilling to acknowledge this fact. Luckily for the West, the key man in the play-76-year-old Chancellor Adenauer-was not taken in. He stuck to his determination to align his people with the West, even though the unification of his country must be postponed. The West could be grateful for him last week...
Guerard cited neutralism and defeatism as two powerful and dominant negative sentiments in modern French thought. The neutralist force, which includes members of all political coloring, dreads a third World War. However, in the event of war, segments of the neutrals would likely align themselves with America, he continued, while defeatists probably would abandon all hope...