Word: barriere
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...Harvard: even taken in its deepest sense, not as a wish to avoid causing pain, but as a constant consideration and valuation of feelings, it contradicts the most sacred critical canons. It is thought to be a sign of the rankest tender-mindedness and most erroneous subjectivity, a barrier to any sort of harsh truth...
...glut is giving the six-nation European Coal and Steel Community the severest test of its six-year history. Eliminating frontiers and the barriers that go with them, the Community had progressed smoothly on a rising market. But coal's current slump provides a painful reminder that although barriers may technically be gone, barrier mentality is far from dead. The pressures of economic self-interest have begun to resist the supranational powers originally granted by treaty to the Community's nine-man High Authority...
Hurdler Joel Landau, the varsity's best bet for a first place, did a heroic job in untangling his form well enough to give Brown's Angelo Sinisi a battle. Leading the field over the last hurdle, Landau hit the barrier, a very rare occurrence, and lost to Sinisi by the narrowest of margins...
...Time Barrier. The money he got from his West German-made movie, The Eighth Day of the Week, and from the sale of his books spilled from his pockets in expensive living and in generous loans. He had an affair of the heart with pretty Actress Sonja Ziemann, who had starred in his picture. But he said: "At first one believes in love. Then one crosses a border, a border of time. Then that belief, too, is lost." How long, someone asked, does it take to pass the time barrier? Hlasko answered cynically: "Five minutes...
...other alphabetical nostrums pass in review. As Schlesinger moves from agency to agency, he frequently comes through with accurate and telling thumbnail sketches of the crowd around F.D.R. There is Henry Wallace ("At a certain point, his mind seemed almost to break through a sonic barrier . . . into rhapsodic mysticism"), who could speculate whether the reverse side of the U.S. Great Seal, with its all-seeing eye. did not prefigure the Second Coming of the Messiah. There is erratic, hard-drinking General Hugh Johnson, who. when he was finally forced to resign from NRA, in his farewell speech to his staff...