Word: clashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explanations did not soon turn in their favor, they would undoubtedly stall them on "technical grounds" and start more trouble. Their first countermove was to demand that the balky North Koreans be worked on again before any more Chinese were interviewed, apparently hoping that the North Koreans would clash with the Indian troops and thereby divert attention from their own red Red faces...
Idea and action define each other: they either fit in mutual support or they clash in confusion. The struggle against Communism, active by the measure of billions of dollars, has been weakened by a lack of clarity at the level of ideas. Why is the U.S. against world Communism? What does the U.S. stand for? What standards justify its policy...
With the swearing in of the Prime Minister (who also assumed the posts of Defense, Finance and External Affairs), the Federation was in business-and already beset by disquieting signs of the racial clash it was supposed to forestall. Fearful that Federation would open the door to a flood of land-grabbing whites, Nyasaland's African tribes were kicking up trouble (TIME, Sept. 14). Last week angry crowds assaulted some of Sir Godfrey's Nyasaland tax collectors and chased some of the pro-Federation tribal chieftains into the bush. Beyond the crocodile-infested Shire River, a white district...
...exertion. The exhortation came from the U.S., along with $39 billion of aid. The exertion came from the best of European leaders, and both exhortation and exertion came from the emergency of the cold war. Not only the Soviet cooing, but sounds the Russians did not want heard-the clash of revolt and unrest-had destroyed the impulse of emergency...
...loudspeaker droned out the final seconds, ". . . trois ... deux ... un .. ." The flag dropped, and 60 helmeted drivers dashed across the road to their glistening cars. With a sputter, a roar, a clash of gears, they were off, tearing down the road in one of auto racing's top events: the Le Mans 24-hour race, a telling test of driver endurance* and engine durability...