Word: disarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moment, he was following pure old-style Perón tactics: disarm the opposition before tackling it frontally. This he began to do last week in a meeting held in Buenos Aires' drab Nino Restaurant, where he and his second wife Evita had courted nearly 30 years ago. By sheer force of the Perón magic, 28 political parties-almost the entire spectrum of Argentine political life-were brought together in the same room. Though they would have been at each other's throats only a few weeks before, they listened attentively to his proposal that they...
...difficult. Pittman worries that the format could occasionally reinforce bigoted or lunatic-fringe positions by making them seem legitimate. Despite such reservations, the editors are convinced that the pro-con page is doing what an editorial page ought to do: inform and influence public debate. Says Patterson: "You disarm the reader. Communication is the art of getting what you say received, not just saying...
Haven't we had enough ot this kind of psychoanalytic overkill? It seems to be inspired by the pathetic illusion that we can disarm society's malefactors by denying their membership in the human race. This is immensely comforting, but in dehumanizing Hitler, we also dehumanize his crimes...
...seem to think that all you have to do is disarm the citizen and your problems are ended. It sounds so simple and easy. But just try it. Most of the firearms in the U.S. today are owned by hard-working average American people who enjoy hunting and target sport-shooting. I myself have three rifles, one shotgun and two automatic pistols. The availability of these firearms to me is not a stimulus to murder as you suggest...
...matter more bluntly: "For us the revolution is not over. It has only begun." So far the Mujib Bahini has done a commendable job of protecting the Biharis, the non-Bengali Moslems who earned Bengali wrath by siding with the Pakistani army. But the government is anxious to disarm the Mujib Bahini, and has plans to organize it into a constabulary that would carry out both police and militia duties...