Word: drift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report to the passenger on the success of the perilous maneuver. Dr. Brodsky is confident that the plastic-faced wings can resist the heat of entry into the earth's air. As the paraglider gets deeper into the atmosphere, its speed will drop steadily. At last it will drift slowly near the earth, and the pilot, flying it like an old-fashioned glider, will be able to select a favorable spot on which to land. If he fires his retrorocket at roughly the right time, he may be able to avoid such inhospitable areas as the broad Pacific...
Frazier is also constantly upset at life's imbalances. He is dispirited to find cars, not deer, at deer crossings; and when his thoughts drift to Howard Johnson's-a direction that Frazier's corpus rarely takes -they are wistful. "If only Howard Johnson's would serve liverwurst sandwiches!" On the other hand, suitable equations gladden his heart. "Tell the truth now-don't you think Pat Brown and California deserve each other...
Shapiro's articles on Cuba have appeared in the Nation and the Atlantic Monthly. They term U.S. policy "inflexible," insist that responsibility for Cuba's drift to the left is two-sided, and warn that even an invasion by 250,000 U.S. troops would not bring about a clear-cut military victory. Shapiro, a 35 year-old man whose wife also teaches at MSU, returned from a visit to Cuba in August, and then referred to Cuba as a Communist dictatorship and a police state...
...announcing the blockade October 22, Mr. Kennedy reviewed Cuba's drift to the left as a betrayal of an essentially nationalistic revolution. But he did not comment on the real paradox of fidelismo: the achievement of Castro's concrete national objectives rests on external economic support. Political independence and social progress can come only through a balanced dependence so the great powers. But to the power that once held away, this balance represents a defeat: to the newly influential, it represents a victory. Minimal U.S. influence in Cuba came to mean humiliation, just as similar influence implied some sort...
...cannot allow the work and devotion of my many associates during eight years in Washington to be scorned at as long as I have a voice to speak," Eisenhower said, in reference to recent charges by President Kennedy that the Republicans foreign policy drift aimlessly...