Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...readjustment of Western policy would have to start with a clear understanding of what Russia was now trying to do in Europe. The Kremlin had two main objectives: 1) to wipe out or reduce U.S. power on the Continent, and 2) to stop Western Union. On objective No. 1 the Russians' Berlin crisis had backfired. By committing itself to the relief of Berlin the U.S. had committed itself more deeply than ever to the defense of Europe. The very vulnerability of the U.S. military position in Berlin taught the lesson of how necessary it was to have force...
...Kashmir lying between them. Neither side was willing to admit that it was war. To a U.N. commission on hand seeking for a way to peace, the Indian government explained over & over again that Kashmir had voluntarily acceded to India, that India's soldiers were there only to clear Kashmir's soil of all enemies so that her 3,000,000 independent citizens could vote peaceably on their own future...
Secret balloting will start at once and continue without letup until one of the candidates has a clear majority, but chairmen of delegations will have no chance to intone the votes of provinces. A candidate may withdraw at any time but will have no opportunity to make a speech throwing his support to another. After the fourth ballot, if no decision has been reached, the low man will be dropped on every ballot until the field is narrowed down to two and a clear majority is established...
...Curve in the Road. Then, a few years after The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky began to change his whole style. What had been warm and violent became-from about 1920 on-cold, classical, clear, calculated. Why? Today Stravinsky shrugs: "Who knows what causes change? You never see the change when you are driving along. A little curve in the road and suddenly you are proceeding east, another and you head north. One is unaware...
...displays that blend of brass and mechanical ingenuity that is required of a Cain hero, like an Eagle Scout who never heard of the gentler things a Scout is supposed to be. The best things in the book are like the best things in all Cain's books: clear, fast-moving narrative passages in which Jack Dillon tells you step by step how he bluffed, fought and figured his way out of jams...