Word: disarmement
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...passionate, you're just hungry." A moment later, she announces kissing to be fun and proceeds to enjoy it. And yet, whether her sophistication is educated naivete, or her childlike candor utter sophistication (one is never quite sure which), she is so fresh, pure and enchanting as to completely disarm Holden, Niven and her audience. Niven, the rake redeemed, tells her that every playboy has an innate respect for innocence. Miss McNamara is acutely conscious of the irony and humor of this transformation, and participates with gusto in the vindication of morality over vice...
...still overwhelmed, but confident small-college President landed in Boston amid a mass of photographers and reporters yesterday and proceeded to disarm all observers. Nathan M. Pusey, replete with class of '28 cap, vest, and tie, seemed completely at case before as large an array of the press as he has probably ever seen...
Seeing the big nations behaving so mannerly, some of the small nations decided that the Burma question might be susceptible to discussion. A gentler substitute motion, formally sponsored by Mexico, was introduced. It deplored the "foreign forces" in Burma, called on them either to disarm and get out, or be interned, and recommended that "the negotiations now in progress through the good offices of certain members [meaning the U.S.] should be pursued." Nowhere did the compromise Mexican resolution-mention "aggression" or identify the offending forces...
...political restriction on weapons used in the field against armed Communists-"We didn't hesitate to employ atomic weapons against the Japanese in 1945; if they can be used in 1953 to save American and South Korean lives, as well as to disarm Communists, then why shouldn't we use them...
...most ticklish task was to disarm his own partisans. Some 10,000 of them still had rifles, machine guns and ammunition, supplied during the fighting. Their guns kept La Razón, a tin-interest daily newspaper hated by M.N.R., from publishing. Paz refused to send guards to the plant. Above all, he did not want any more shooting...