Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While supporting the Administration on Viet Nam, the two scholars took issue with Washington's fundamental approach to China. The U.S. should shift, Barnett suggested, from "containment plus isolation of Peking to containment without isolation," working simultaneously to block Chinese expansionism-as in Viet Nam-and to bring the Chinese into the international community, particularly the United Nations. Peking-like any psychotic patient-would resist therapy with every obnoxious means at its disposal. Nonetheless, said Barnett, "initiatives on our part are clearly required if we are to work, however slowly, toward the long-term goal of a more stable...
...cited disagreements between the United States and the Soviet Union over methods of inspection as "a major stumbling block" in past disarmament talks...
Speaking of the extremes a team will go to win, he cited the "two World Series of 1965" one in Los Angeles with a cinder-block infield, enabling ground balls to get through and the Dodgers' speedy runners to make use of their talent, and one in. Minnesota with a sandy, sloping infield which slows runners and ruins good bunts...
...experience. The view of course is fine if you're lucky enough to get a room above the seventh floor. But you can't look out the window all day, and when you're not looking out the window you look at the three remaining walls in your cinder-block cubicle. More than one year in the Towers could scar a man for life and make a raving idiot of a claustrophobe...
...paid for by English friends), Garibaldi dreamed of a Shelleyan end-to be burned, like the poet, on the beach. When he died in 1882, he was instead given the usual Christian burial on Caprera. Nature supplied the Garibaldian touch. A melodramatic storm came up, and the vast granite block that now covers his body cracked and broke...