Word: buffer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About 40 cooperative enterprises have sprung up. There is a credit union, a food coop, a "people's patrol" that helps thwart petty crimes and serves as a buffer when regular police come in, and a legal aid office. A gas station has been taken over by students and renamed "people's petroleum." The most important of the new organizations: an unofficial city council that coordinates the volunteer groups and lobbies before the regular county board...
...effort to build a buffer for Leningrad, the Soviet Union's second largest city, Stalin at that time demanded that Finland move its southern border to the north, beyond artillery range of the city. The Finns refused, and Stalin decided to use force. "The Finns turned out to be good warriors," says Khrushchev. "We soon realized that we had bitten off more than we could chew. The Finns would climb up into the fir trees and shoot our men at pointblank range. Covered by branches, with white cloaks over their uniforms, the Finns were invisible...
...nearly as a Beatle could, George Harrison led the life of an invisible man. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were hailed as genius pop composers. Ringo Starr, the catalyst who served as a human buffer between conflicting egos, was constantly stirring affectionate chuckles. George was the quiet, apparently dependent...
...such that the generals are preparing a special amnesty which would allow Dictator Juan Perón to end his 15-year Madrid exile and return to Argentina. The generals' theory is that Catholic Peronismo, still strong among Argentina's working classes, would act as a buffer against atheistic Communism from Chile...
...strategy is to pull all of the American troops back behind the battlements and cease a lot of the American ground attacks. "Vietnamization" means supplying guns as fast as we can make them to the South Vietnamese army and then putting a buffer of South Vietnamese troops between the attacking NLF and the Americans-in order to cut American casualties...