Word: barriere
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Both men said they believe the settlers' vulnerability stems from the language barrier and their mistrust of police, who in their homelands were often corrupt and actually viewed as an enemy. While the two denied any evidence of a political "backlash" against the Indochinese by Americans, Hartry attributed the local troubles to possible indignanace by "older immigrants" who arrived earlier in the century, when no federal programs existed for anyone, least of all newcomers. Nowadays, he explained, many Americans are voicing disapproval of the "very significant welfare dependency of Indochinese and all refugees...
...round and round the flowerbeds each evening in summer, sinking into deep earnest conversations with whichever women will sit still for them. Occasionally my curiosity got the better of my irritation and I tried to make sense out of the spectacle by actually answering. Even allowing for the language barrier, the circularity of such conversations boggled the mind...
...outlines of the Robinson story are, of course, familiar even to many a non-baseball fan, given the event's enormous symbolic importance. The exhaustive search by Branch Rickey, the Dodger president, for the "right" player to be the first to break baseball's color barrier; the extreme secrecy in which he shrouded his plans; the abuse Robinson had to suffer during his first years in the league--these themes have become cultural common knowledge in the wake of the wild publicity that accompanied him throughout his spectacular 1950s career. But Tygiel, a San Francisco State history professor, is able...
...grievously complicated situation, the U.S. and other powers with peacekeeping forces in Lebanon must have moved beyond the unattractive military options that now face them--pulling out to let violence erupt immediately, or upping the peacekeeping pressure until that violence becomes stronger than any barrier. And they must avoid the other easy, backward-looking--and unfair--tack of blaming the violence on the Israeli pullout, so long clamored for, and trying hypocritically to reinvolve Israel in Lebanon's affairs. Instead, the U.S. must marshal all its resources of political analysis for a deeper look--even if it means helping Lebanon...
...inflexibility simply pushed matters to the extreme. I isolated myself even more by refusing to practice my high school French on sympathetic Parisian ears. And I completely ignored the reality of the Paris modeling scene by maintaining a barrier between my work and private life, thereby infuriating my agent. My negativity was reflected in a recurring vision of neutron bombs landing on the city, preserving its art while vaporizing its citizens...