Word: clashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought a few moments, then said quietly: "I don't think that is it." To the President's way of thinking, clamor on Capitol Hill illustrated a simple maxim: "American politics is a history of a clash of ideas." But he was not averse to voicing some clashing budget-area sentiments of his own: "We have got to adapt the great principles of the Constitution to the inescapable industrial and economic conditions of our time, and make certain that our country is secure, and our people participate in the progress of our economy...
...event of a major armed clash," said Zhukov, "atomic weapons will inevitably be used as the principal means of offense ... At present there is no corner in the world where an aggressor might seek cover. The Soviet air force is capable of delivering crushing blows against any adversary, wherever he might be or hide...
...calls "trustification" have killed more than 475 newspapers in Britain and the U.S. in the past 35 years, he argues that it is "not the one-sidedness of the monopoly newspaper that contains the greatest threat to local democracy now, but its circumspect neutrality in many matters where the clash of opinion is desirable." Most newspapers' sins of omission* and commission spring from an economic dilemma: they are torn between the journalistic duty to inform and the competitive need to entertain mass audiences which have little interest in serious news. The modern newspaper editor, says Williams, is "a blood...
...loosed in vast, sparsely settled Mauritania. Joined by turbaned camel riders who dearly love to fight, Moroccan irregulars have launched attacks on isolated French outposts, killed half a dozen French soldiers and burned a few French armored cars. North of Fort Trinquet last month there was a more serious clash in which, according to Moroccan reports, the French lost 22 men. Nevertheless, said huge, tanned Lieut. General René Cogny, French commander in Morocco, just back from the region last week: "I am not worried about the military problem. But what is serious is the political side of the story...
Senate Mideast Clash...