Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mullah Kashani and the Tudeh Communists. The solution, says this expert, is not to make an oil agreement in hopes of bolstering Iran's government, but first to bolster Iran's government so that it might keep whatever oil agreement it made. Nearest to a stable element in Iran's government is the Shah, this expert believes: if helped by the U.S., the Shah might be transformed from the weak ruler he now seems...
Winthrop has all types, but none to excess. To be sure there is still a rather large sporting element and a rather small percentage of scholars, but on the whole a careful balance is sought...
Leading one element of the Sabres was a Texan named Royal N. Baker, who had flown British Spitfires against the Luftwaffe in 1942, was now, at 34, a colonel and commander of the Air Force's 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing. Nearly 40,000 ft. up, Baker and his followers ran into a flight of eight MIG-15s. Two of the MIGs turned tail and headed for the Yalu. Taking out after one of them, Baker edged close, fired one short burst. The shots "just sprayed the air because I was caught in his jetwash." From 1,200 ft. away...
Perhaps the most elusive element in Moscow's great transfer of power is the incalculable human factor, which Marxism tries hard to deny. There is no doubt that the Communist cause had lost its ablest leader and was, thereby, that much weakened. But more than any single political force in history, Communism seems to have found a way to make sure that the evil that men do will live after them...
...play is itself a blend of what writers Donald Vevan and Edmund Trzcinski call "comedy melodrama." The comic element is of an earthy, physical sort, inversely proportional to the supply of women. But it convulsed more of the audience than it embarrassed. Although not so funny as Mr. Roberts, Stalag 17 has an added element of melodrama. Tension arises when the prisoners' sabotage and escape plots fail with crushing regularity, making it apparent that one amongst them is a German informer. Their efforts to discover the culprit (they had a better word for him) provide grim and gripping moments between...