Word: bi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desperately need more trade, especially if this country continues to discourage trade with the Soviet bloc. The American economy, too, needs the stimulus to production that increased foreign trade would bring. Since both American economy and American security are bound so tightly with the economies of all other nations, bi-lateral agreements are not most effective, because, just as in disarmament, it is impossible for one or two nations to succeed alone...
...expressed complete sympathy with the present stand of the German Federal Republic on the problem of European integration and his position implied a belief in the merits of bi-lateral action by Germany and the United States...
...class happened to be in mathematics, but the sort of math the teen-agers were tackling went far beyond anything that even most college students know. Based partly on the theories of Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, it involved symbolic logic and sentence calculus. "Logically valid conditionals and bi-conditionals, or the implications they embody," blithely explained the professor, "give rise not only to rules of sound inference-by which to proceed step by step through an argument-but to overall plans of attack which can result in various strategies of proof." With that in mind, the class proceeded...
...plenary session called at his request, Molotov bided his time while Bi dault argued, with an eye on Paris, that the conference had achieved "some appreciable results," notably its acceptance of the French plea to discuss a military cease-fire before going into the interminable difficulties of a political settlement. Then Molotov spoke...
...abusive, arrogant, mocking. Clearly intending to bring down the La-niel government, he complained of Bi-dault's "refusal or evasion of negotiations" with the Viet Minh itself, taunted him with the cost to France in men and money of a "colonial war." He charged that the Bao Dai government had no popular support. He claimed that the Communists already controlled three-quarters of Viet Nam, half of Laos, a smaller but increasing part of Cambodia. As for Dienbienphu, "Who can deny that the defense of Dienbienphu was in the main carried out not by the French...