Word: brink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonpolitical departments like science still operate fairly normally, but the turmoil has produced a shambles in the fields of economics, sociology, philosophy and political science. Said a Cologne newspaper: "There is not a university in the country that seems so near the brink of disaster...
...against the North another notch, and antiwar sentiments were rekindled anew. His television announcement that he would mine the North Vietnamese ports prompted renewed plans for action, as Harvard students again prepared to disrupt their routines to stop what appeared briefly to be a mad march to the nuclear brink...
...against the North another notch, and antiwar sentiments were rekindled anew. His television announcement that he would mine the North Vietnamese ports prompted renewed plans for action, as Harvard students again prepared to disrupt their routines to stop what appeared briefly to be a mad march to the nuclear brink...
...elusive Grail than in Northern Ireland, where the mood of the warring Catholic and Protestant communities can swing violently. But last week, for a while at least, peace seemed a bit closer, as one of the two rival wings of the Irish Republican Army drew back from the brink of what had seemed an incipient civil war. In a dramatic policy announcement, the Marxist-leaning Official wing of the I.R.A. said that "in view of the growing danger of sectarian conflict," it was suspending "all military action" in Northern Ireland unless attacked by British troops or local Protestant forces...
...President Nixon's speech on mining Haiphong [May 22] was an admission that his policy of Vietnamization has failed utterly. The Administration's disastrous leadership has now brought us to the brink of global warfare to rescue a small corrupt government and win a bloody war that the American people long ago disowned...