Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the favorite political pastimes of Michigan's Republican Governor George Romney is making frequent speeches that cite percentage figures for the progress of his programs, plead for bipartisan unity, exhort Michiganders to "put an end to stalemate and drift" and "move forward...
...proposal met his approval, Sihanouk became convinced of a Western plot to partition his nation. Last week, Sihanouk's obsessive suspicion of the West cued a violent riot in Pnompenh which resulted in the sacking of the British and U.S. embassies and spotlighted Cambodia's alarming drift toward Communism...
Sihanouk's drift to the left is based on his conviction that all southern Asia will one day be dominated by Communist China. By cozying up to the Reds now, he hopes to get the best terms possible if and when Cambodia is finally forced to become a Chinese satellite. "I see things as they are," he says, "not as I would like them...
Many of the U.S.'s old friends do not seem to call as often as they used to-and when they do, there is apt to be a new tone of voice. By design and by drift, they follow increasingly independent courses, with less and less reference to U.S. policy. Sometimes they almost seem to defy U.S. wishes out of pure perversity...
Plot--if we define it as things which happen in the course of a novel--is not overabundant in Aiken's works. In Conversation, a man and his wife have drifted apart, and finally drift back together. In Blue Voyage, a man discovers that his former lover is traveling on a ship with him and that she is now engaged. These would seem to be unsubstantial pegs on which to hang several hundred pages of prose...