Word: containment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Visits to Aunt Magda. In Bulgaria, 19% of all cars on the road are chauffeur-driven, and Poland has 27,000 chauffeurs for its officials. All of the thousand or so cars with curtained windows that bump along Albania's dusty roads are government-owned, usually contain bureaucrats and their drivers. Even the tiny Czechoslovakian veterinary service has somehow managed to acquire 900 chauffeured cars. As a sop to socialist equality, the bureaucrat often rides in the front seat beside his driver, who is nonetheless expected to hop out and open the door for him. Throughout the East bloc...
...intention of increasing his payments. Indeed, he has taken advantage of the Egyptian withdrawal from Yemen to promote a Royalist offensive against the Republican capital of San'a. If he can dislodge the Yemeni Republicans, Feisal hopes that he will then be in a position to contain the expansionist-minded N.L.F. regime in South Yemen and possibly even engineer the return of the sheiks to power...
...buyers who covet their richly textured boards and hand-hewn beams, sell them to satisfy America's increasingly nostalgic appetite for rustic building materials. The barn boards are being used in homes mostly as warm wall paneling for family rooms, dens and country kitchens, or for cabinets to contain the latest stereo-tape decks and color TVs, and even for picture frames. But the weathered wood is also finding its way into supermarkets, restaurants, executive suites and department stores...
...question that a taste for Otis Redding must be an acquired one. However, once one has adjusted one's sensitivity to his greatness, he loses nothing even after years and years. The point is finally reached where even the briefest snatch of any of his songs is seen to contain more than the entire work of any other singer...
...xenophobia of the Cultural Revolution is Tanzania on the Indian Ocean's western shore. China has even promised to spend $280 million and send the coolie labor to build a railroad connecting Tanzania and Zambia, a plan that the World Bank rejected as uneconomic. Such generosity might well contain the seeds of a quid pro quo: a Chinese monitoring and tracking station in Tanzania when Mao's rockets are ready to whoosh down the Indian Ocean range...