Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the snow, or arriving by taxi. At the Borovitsky Gate, while fur-capped guards inspect their passes, they queue up-solid-looking citizens in fur hats and fur-collared overcoats, some in the uniforms of high-ranking army and navy officers, others in the picturesque costumes of their distant countries. Most of them display medals awarded for services to party, state and industry, for all are Communists...
...materials moved north by air last week to launch the biggest arctic defense project the U.S. and Canada have yet undertaken: construction of the Distant Early Warning line (DEW). When the system is finished in about two years, its radar and other detection devices will keep around-the-clock alert from the Yukon to Greenland against intruding Soviet aircraft...
...wisest words in the dispute were spoken by crusty old Lord Vansittart, a distant cousin but no partisan of the hero. Lawrence's part in the Arabian revolt, wrote Vansittart, "was not titanic, but it was considerable. Mr. Aldington cannot reconcile-nor did Lawrence himself-faults and gifts, purple and dust, Dichtung und Wahrheit, bravery and inaccuracy, daring and brusquerie, delicacy and cheek...
...unexcelled bases in Japan and Korea for redeployment...We had the tremendous skill of the Japanese industrial nation, employed as civilians...It could not possibly be made or altered any better." Admiral Charles Turner Joy, agreeing, added: "The Navy could not have fought in a more favorable distant area...
...officials watched in horrified fascination, they came-from Paris suburbs and distant cities-defying floods, government obstruction and police discouragement. Three of Paris' largest auditoriums were forbidden to them. Just outside the city limits, in two huge halls, 100,000 Poujadistes cheered and shouted approval as their young leader, self-styled "Robin Hood of taxpayers," insulted Premier Mendés-France, his Cabinet and his programs. " We want our share of the cake, too," shouted Poujade. "From tomorrow on, we don't pay any taxes until they show us a fiscal reform worth its salt. Agreed?" Bellowed...