Word: chokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Morning Tracks. But to nature lovers, off-road vehicles represent the ultimate invasion of privacythe land equivalent of outboard motorboats that now choke the nation's lakes and rivers. In some wilderness areas, undeclared war has broken out. Hikers and crosscountry skiers block trails with felled trees; in response, some bikers and snowmobilers carry chain saws to slash roadblocks and cut free firewood...
...means 18 months in uniform for every 19-year-old, male and female. The Nineteenth Year was sold to the public as a liberal measure, because young pacifists were given a chance to serve in the pollution-control corps instead of the Army. But its real purpose is to choke off the youth revolution, and for two years it has done...
...Nasser stunned?and delighted?the Arab world by announcing that he had made an Iron Curtain arms deal through Czechoslovakia. U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles thereupon scratched Aswan as an American aid project, and Nasser responded by nationalizing the Suez Canal. "Americans," he cried, "may you choke on your fury...
These recent successes are the result of the Nixon Administration's diligent effort to enlist other countries in the American battle against drugs. Although tightened search procedures at U.S. airports and border crossings have managed to discourage some of the would-be smugglers, Washington hopes to choke off the flow at the source. Other governments, especially those in Europe, have become more cooperative since the use of hard drugs has begun spreading among their own young people...
...written. Huntington's thesis: since the government controls the cities, the population shift has made the countryside much less important politically. As a result the Communists are finding it far harder than before to apply Mao Tse-tung's guerrilla strategy of using the rural areas to choke off and finally conquer the isolated and outmanned cities...