Word: exertion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle. Among the men with stars on their shoulders and scrambled eggs on their hats flew young men in mufti whose schooling in warfare took place not on the beachheads of Normandy or Inchon but on the blackboards of universities and Government-contract think factories. The men in mufti exert a powerful and controversial influence in the Pentagon these days-and they often have more to say about cold war military planning than the generals...
...admission of Outer Mongolia to COMECON, Russia's ineffectual answer to the Common Market, was a slap in the face to the Chinese, who are not members and who had expected to exert a measure of control in Outer Mongolia's affairs. In Laos, Russia infuriated China by promoting a deal, however unsteady, with the U.S. and heralding it as "a major accomplishment." In India, Russia has supported Nehru's border war against Red China, first by providing small arms and helicopters for the swift movement of troops, most recently by offering the Indians supersonic...
Stevens' poetry is almost untouched by social criticism, and he was perhaps too much of a poet of well-being to exert a full influence on a younger, more desperate generation. Instead, he was obsessed by the idea of order in the universe-perhaps because he was vice president of Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co. He cherished imagination not as escape from reality but as the "necessary angel" whose shaping grace can enable man to perceive the true nature of things and fulfill his need to make order of chaos. Religion, Stevens felt, had abdicated its metaphysical chair...
...strongly protest your cover-up story of A.D.A. activities and influence in the Kennedy Administration. More than 31 present and former members exert strong influence as holders of key policymaking positions in the Administration...
Shouts & Whispers. Under the constitution, President Gursel has little real power, but he continues to exert pressure on the politicians. Regularly, he climbs into the presidential Cadillac, speeds from his seaside villa near Istanbul to buttonhole and prod key politicians and military commanders. Gursel today is a spry 67, has almost fully recovered from a partial paralysis he suffered 17 months ago; he has also broken the chain-smoking habit and is proud of it. "During those first days," he recalls, "I felt that someone had me by the throat and voices were whispering in my ear 'Smoke, smoke...