Word: dike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hatched plots against Egyptians have at last found themselves forced to recognize Egypt's rights in supervising its own canal." Though the U.S. continued to haggle for some kind of multilateral agreement, every ship that paid its tolls and sailed through the canal widened the breach in the dike of effective Western resistance...
...beware of two tempting solutions: the lowering of standards and haphazard expansion. Last week, in his first report as dean of the Graduate Faculties of Columbia University, Historian Jacques Barzun warned: "As the highest institution of learning, the graduate school suddenly finds that it may soon become the last dike in the flood. Elsewhere, the diluting of quality may do limited or temporary harm. Not at the top. Somewhere the idea of scholarship must be kept unimpaired. Clearly, the graduate school is the one autonomous place where this can and must be done...
...Pope Pius XII to members of the Irish Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart: "Ireland is a land that combines the smile and the tear. Also, alas, what a flood of tears, drowning out the joy and laughter of home and hearth, has poured through when the dike of temperance has been shattered...
...holding the index itself relatively steady while most other prices are shooting up. Should the index jump two more points (to 149.1), minimum wages for 20 million workers would automatically increase 5%, setting another inflationary spiral. Said one French economist last week: "The sea is lapping at the dike...
Ever since the end of the Korean war, the United Nations' dike against trade with Communist China has grown steadily weaker. Last week the cracks became a chasm. In London the British Foreign Office announced that it would allow all colonial governments to resume shipments of rubber to Red China, and added privately that "we intend to resume trade on as many fronts as possible without allowing China strategic materials it cannot get from Russia." In short order, Malaya issued permission for each concern to sell up to 2,000 tons to the Chinese Communists; Indonesia announced that...