Word: barriere
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...were still high after a tiny lunatic fringe of Quebec separatists had been bombing mailboxes and raiding armories. The situation has eased considerably since then. Lester Pearson has appointed more French Canadians to key Cabinet posts than any other Prime Minister, and made a start on lowering the language barrier in the civil service. Canada has a new maple-leaf flag that symbolizes neither English nor French. And Pearson has gone far to meet Quebec Premier Jean Lesage's demands for nation-within-a-nation status by allowing Quebec to "opt out" of such national schemes...
...barrier to communication, Burke discovered, is the Bible's bucolic imagery. "Some of the boys have never seen sheep and don't know what a shepherd is," he says. "Biblical allusions to them make no sense." Even the most beautiful phrases can have unhappy connotations. The boys usually laughed when Burke spoke about lilies of the field that neither toil nor spin; for them, a lily is a homosexual...
...Another barrier to East-West concord is a fundamental philosophical disagreement about the meaning of peaceful coexistence. Poland's Schaff, the most articulate of the five Communists who spoke at the convocation, described the term grandly as a "noble competition for the minds and brains of the people" between rival ideologies. Both Kennan and Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak answered that it is hard for the West to consider the competition "noble" so long as the Reds deny personal liberty and depend on rule by coercion...
...between them. When a micrometeoroid penetrates the aluminum, it will punch a hole in the plastic and fill the hole with metal vapor that is a good conductor of electricity. Although the gas will dissipate quickly, there will be time for a brief pulse of electricity to cross the barrier and inform the satellite's electronic brain. Instruments in the satellite will record the time of each hit, identify the panel, and report roughly in what direction it was facing when...
...Lyndon would one day be President-but he denied any such ambition. When, in 1960, he finally decided to go after the job, his Southern background proved his greatest handicap; no genuine Southerner had been elected to the White House since Zachary Taylor in 1848.*It was the geographical barrier that Jack Kennedy was talking about when he said, some time before his own nomination: "I know all the other candi dates pretty well...