Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...containment line in Korea. The U.S. could have reacted to the Indo-China debacle by freezing its strength in Korea. Instead, it now proceeded on the premise that what deters the Reds from further aggression is the general U.S. power of retaliation, not the policeman on a particular corner...
...could be used in localized wars because, human nature being what it is, it will take a long time for people who have always turned to force to learn the ways of reason and peace. But in the United Nations we have the machinery for helping people in every corner of the globe to become educated...
...Byliner Hecht: "In the 30 years since my byline was visible in this newspaper . . . things have changed, including possibly the shape of the earth. But . . . she was still there . . . trying to defend her wicked ways . . . The officer had spotted her talking earnestly to a strange man on the street corner . . . With her run-over heels and tongue-tied soul [she] will be the only thing the atom bomb will never change or remove...
...lunged forward and caught a clip on the neck. He was knocked to his knees for a count of five. Unruffled, he kept right on shifting his style, teasing the challenger, waiting for Johnson to make a mistake. Johnson finally obliged. In the 14th, he backed carelessly into a corner. Instantly, Moore moved in. Johnson took a short, straight right to the jaw, spun half around as if looking for help and sank to the canvas. He was up at five. The furious frown that the challenger had been wearing was gone now; in its place was an empty grin...
Altogether, Christianity could be seen as still a long way from the disintegration which Dr. Hromadka saw just around the corner. Before and since the Vandals sacked Hippo, Christianity survived many agonies. But the Vandals inside and outside the city in A.D. 1954 were a different breed from any who had come before. No Christian, 1,600 years after Saint Augustine's birth, could say with full confidence that the churches were winning the fight against them...