Word: binds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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France Alone. Fifteen months ago, France's De Gaulle opened his demands that NATO have responsibility for coordinating Western policy all around the world. Instead of confining itself to averting Soviet aggression in Europe, he argued, NATO should bind its members to support one another's interests everywhere-and specifically to support France in revolt-torn Algeria. To frame common NATO policy, De Gaulle suggested the formation of a three-power superdirectorate composed of the U.S., Britain and France...
...deeply probed, never really come to grips. Something essential, whether cumulative small detail or a big scene, is missing. A climactic moment, such as the mother's refusing her son's deeply felt anniversary gift, half-sacrifices character to plot. The silver cord does not really bind Inge's story...
...killers had left no clues behind. The cord and tape they used to bind and gag their victims were stock items that could have been purchased in any town in the U.S. There were plenty of fingerprints around, but the house of the busy, friendly Clutters had been "like a railroad station," as a neighbor put it, and the prints could have belonged to any of numerous visitors. One thing seemed certain to the Clutters' friends and neighbors: so methodical a crime could not have been committed by strangers who came upon the farm by chance. "When this...
...moribund refugee organizations-which claim to speak for more than 12 million Germans exiled from German lands now in Communist hands-visited Adenauer to warn of restiveness in their ranks since the Oder-Neisse talk started. The presidents of four North German states wrote, warning the Chancellor not to bind the Federal Republic so closely to France and the Common Market countries, that traditional North German trade ties to Britain and Scandinavia would be hurt...
...fanatic nature of some of the Communist stalwarts was surprising, especially the Iraqi and Saudi Arabian party members. Their idea of fun was to gather in the Afro-Asian restaurant every night from 11 until 3 a.m., and bind themselves together in a frenzy of red wine and an orgy porgy of "peace and friendship...