Word: defaulting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will, snapping solid blows to body and head. Clay's shots were annoying Liston more than hurting him, but without his left, the big gun in Sonny's arsenal, the Liston attack was limited to a few weak jabs and an occasional right. Clay won the sixth practically by default...
...Washington. The dangers inherent in this policy are obvious: it will be difficult to gain agreement on the neutralization of all Vietnam, and the neutralization of the South alone could be a prelude to a Communist takeover. The United States need be under no illusion that neutrality by default will be a satisfactory solution, but at this date a satisfactory solution is impossible to obtain A negotiated end to the war, whether by the Vietnamese themselves or in conjunction with the major powers, will merely enable the U.S. to save some face, while averting the unpalatable alternatives of military defeat...
Sekler warned against the "desecration of the environment by default." He cited the Cambridge electron nccelerator as an "unmitigated example of visual squalor" which had resulted from lack of concern. "It is not so much individual buildings us the total environment that matters...
...your notions mock Aristotle, doctor. They do not confide entirely in the reason, They default on sense, on the rational assurance...
...theater actress all the way; yet her history with Hollywood has been curious. Time after time, Hollywood has offered other actresses with box-office names roles that Geraldine Page has eventually been given by default-Summer and Smoke, Sweet Bird of Youth-and each time Page has won an Oscar nomination. Doing films as a kind of part-time moonlighter, she has become a movie star in spite of herself...