Word: binding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first major step to bind Germany to France and Europe was the 1952 merger of the coal and steel resources of France, Germany, Italy and the Benelux nations. The six went on to form the Common Market in 1958 and became Europe's best hope of unity. In 1955, he won for Germany a place in NATO and thus further links to the Western community of nations. Like John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State at the time, der Alte saw Communism as an implacable threat to his Christian conception of Western civilization. Dulles and Adenauer became fast friends...
Mumma gave his wholehearted support to young men who think the Vietnam war is unjust and refuse the draft. "I am firmly convinced that Lyndon Johnson cannot bind my conscience or the consciences of young men," he said...
...drive to tear up all roots that bind China to Western culture, many top artists and performers are going through the same hell that Ma did. It was reported that Liu Shih-kun, topflight pianist and runner-up to Van Cliburn at the Moscow Tchaikovsky festival in 1958, had his wrists broken by Red Guards. Hung Hsien-nu, Canton's best-known opera singer, was tried by kangaroo courts, had her hair bobbed, and now works sweeping floors. Chou Hsin-fang, star of the Peking opera, and elderly Author Lao She (known in the West for Rickshaw Boy) have...
...chiliastic aspect--a dramatic action to be followed expectantly by dramatic reulsts. Here again there is a parallel to syndicalism and the I.W.W.--the use of force to correct a current grievance, perhaps someday a general strike, but no permanent collective bargaining and no contracts which only bind you when you want to fight, as the "wobblies" said. There is little perspective of time. The emphasis is on the event and not the process. And thus there is little consideration of all of the long-term consequences. Strategy and tactics are combined in a program of action...
...taught in their home language. Newspapers in both republics were soon filled with blistering editorials, letters and articles. In Croatia, factories, government agencies and schools began organizing anti-Serbian protests. It may have seemed like just a harmless dispute, but Tito knows how weak are the ties that bind Yugoslavia's six republics and how strong the regional rivalries. Fearing, the political consequences of the squabble, he blew the whistle...