Word: exert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hammarskjold, seeing an opportunity to exert the U.N.'s tranquilizing influence, was quick to turn the U.S. dilemma to account. With U.S. blessing-and only pro forma Russian protests-Hammarskjold, on his own, sent Finland's Sakari Tuomioja to provide a U.N. "presence" in Laos and to look into ways of bringing U.N. help to the Laotian economy. The unspoken condition of U.N. intervention-Laotian neutrality-struck the U.S. as a reasonable price to pay for peace in Southeast Asia...
...this spiny desert, argues that "the only true originality any art can have is originality of content. If I tried to find a new way of doing sculpture, I'd be like any other guy." Baskin even avoids beautiful materials for fear their texture and color might exert too great an influence on his art, direct the attention of the viewer from the form...