Word: clashingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this age of nuclear stalemate, history's decisive moments seldom result any longer from the clash of arms and armies. They develop instead from painstaking negotiations and wordy debates, subject to all the vagaries and nuances of global and frequently local politics. So it is this week as two momentous shifts in the political shape of the world approach the point of decision. In London, ten years after Britain first applied to join the European Economic Community, the House of Commons votes on whether Britain should join the six-nation Common Market. At the United Nations, the General Assembly...
...shaky claim to head the legitimate government not only of Taiwan but of all China. For Moscow, the debate underscores an agonizing conflict between its long-standing hostility to Peking and its longer-standing commitment to support a fellow Communist regime. For the Nixon Administration, preoccupied with a possible clash among right-wingers at home now that the U.S. is supporting Peking's admission, the exercise cannot be anything but painful. It may, in fact, prove completely unworkable, despite the Administration's most earnest attempts...
Hung and Xuan cannot see the fighting as a clash of well-defined political forces. They have no conception of war in the abstract. War is something that has always been there, and it is comprehensible only in concrete instances--a bomb blast in a theatre, a soldier who will buy a newspaper, a father gone for mysterious reasons...
...Spectator, facing overwhelming odds, decided at 2:37 p.m. yesterday to reschedule the traditional newspaper clash for 3 p.m. and not tell the Crimson. However Crimson Dillion Field House Lavatory Editor, on assignment this week at the third basin, F. Ears Pope, called in the story to the news room at 2:39 p.m. Pope was delayed in calling in the story because he had to wash his hands...
...misunderstanding of what makes poetry. "The Unknown Neighbor" is an effectively elegaic recollection with an unnecessary stinger for a last line; it's the most obvious example in the Advocate of a style of would-be poetry that suffers less from a misuse of form--unlimited possibilities of word-clash and harmony--than it does from an unwillingness to consider form...