Word: clashingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into the back seat. It was Ceausescu, off to the industrial center of Brasov to address factory workers. He was on the move throughout the country each day last week in a skillful and seemingly remarkably successful campaign to rally his people behind him in preparation for a possible clash with the Soviets...
...offer more discord than unity. Their presidential nominating convention shaped up like Combat in civvies. As the contenders battled bitterly over credentials, the platform and seating arrangements, there was a strong possibility that in the armed-camp atmosphere that prevailed outside the International Amphitheatre, police and demonstrators would clash...
...world's largest securities market, with damaging consequences for brokerage firms and investors alike. "I have no doubt," he said, "that the securities markets as we know them today would cease to exist." The government and Wall Street thus reached a point of tense confrontation in the bitterest clash since the Pecora investigation in the early...
...Biafra (see THE WORLD) is a symbol of the continent's divided soul, and the most discouraging example so far of a profound impasse that is crippling many of Black Africa's 30 newly independent states. It is an impasse between tribe and nation, which is also a clash between tradition and change, fact and aspiration...
Proxy Wars. Since the major nuclear powers are deathly afraid of a head-on clash, the Mydanses believe that only total derangement on one or both sides will bring back all-out war. Instead, wars of the future will follow the pattern established since World War II-a conflict fought with limited means and often ending indecisively...