Word: approach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...approach of the Chinese Communists across the border has given the Reds visions of decisive victory, but it has also aggravated a growing rift between the hard Communist core of leaders around Ho, who are ready to accept Mao Tse-tung's leadership, and the rank & file, who fear China and want Viet Nam for the Viet Namese. One French general told me: "For two years I had to keep statistics of desertions to the Communists. For the last two months my statistics are Communist desertions...
Cinemactress Jane Russell "is profoundly, indeed, apocalyptically, interested in the future state of the world-her approach being religious (though not ecclesiastical) rather than political." So, in his weekly newspaper column, announced awed Laborite M.P. Tom Driberg, who had been showing Visitor Russell around Parliament. "She has studied the Bible and its interpretation deeply. In her mother's garden in California, she told me, she and a group of other young people have built a chapel; down there, among the eucalyptus trees, strictly for prayer . . . Crowds of them come in every evening...
According to Warshaw the U. S.'s opening speech at the Festival typifies what he calls the "negative approach" of the majority of the U. S. delegation. "Even though most of the Festival was supposed to be non-political, the people who were there from America were not representative of U. S. youth. Neither were the things they...
Poor Bombs Are Easy. The trick is to bring them together quickly enough. If they approach one another slowly, they begin to react before they are fully in contact. The heat developed drives them apart prematurely, and the reaction stops. In the bomb described in the Smyth Report, the masses were driven together, probably in millionths of a second, by some such "low-order explosive" as TNT. Even if the Russians did not do as well as U.S. scientists, their less efficient bomb would still produce an "atomic explosion...
...from decreasing the value of the Seminar, however, the greater congeniality among the students from 16 European countries has made possible a franker and loss hesitant approach to all aspects of American life and to questions of American policy in Europe...