Word: defending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crisis in Japan raised a red flag of danger where one should always be flying. Japan, heretofore considered a pro-Western bastion, was now a question mark: a sovereign nation not yet able to defend itself, a democracy not yet strong enough to repel serious, if sporadic, Communist infiltration. Japan's first duty was to pull itself together and get on with the economic and political future that lay in the full promise of its free institutions. The U.S.'s duty was to guarantee unequivocally that nothing should be allowed to interfere with that promise...
...Drive for Trust. Though Japan clearly cannot defend itself, the attitude of most Japanese toward their military alliance with the U.S. nonetheless remains an unenthusiastic "yamu wo enai [it can't be helped]"-which lends strength to the vocal minority which openly prefers neutralism or "neutralism leaning toward China." To forestall the possibility that this situation might ultimately explode in a flash of all-out hostility to the U.S., Ambassador MacArthur soon fell in with Kishi's insistence that the time had come for American concessions designed to convert the Japanese public from yamu wo enai...
...Milanese even defend their weather-last year Milan had 200 days of rain, hail, snow, sleet, fog and overcast. They assure visitors: "It's the kind of climate that keeps you moving. In Rome, all you feel like doing is looking out the window." A Milanese is always going somewhere: to his job, or to one of the cafes and bars in the glass-domed Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, or to Italy's largest railway station to board the express to Rome, or to a business appointment in the slim, 33-story Pirelli Building, which is Western Europe...
...frank moments Kono admits that he is about fed up with weight lifting: "At the start it was joy. Now it's an ordeal. I'm a special target of the Russians. I'm always under pressure to defend a title or break a record." In fact, Kono is talking of quitting after this year. To ease his ennui in the meantime, he bends nails with his fingers, drives spikes into boards with his fist, blows up hot-water bottles until they burst, and looks forward to the Olympics-when he will have the chance to become...
Nevertheless, firms that go overseas often fear U.S. public reaction, often market foreign-made products under their own U.S. labels and play down their overseas operations. Some businessmen make no secret about their foreign imports, vigorously defend the practice, argue that it can make jobs for U.S. workers rather than take them away. Says President Ray Eppert of Detroit's Burroughs Corp., which shifted its entire output of calculators from Detroit to Scotland: "As additional products are transferred abroad on a competitive basis, we will be able to produce new products here. We will import from foreign subsidiaries, thus...