Word: existance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these delicate arts, Chou En-lai excels. He has tyranny's advantages in that he has no popular opinion in his own nation to answer to and thus can pretend a monolithic support that does not exist. At Geneva he confronted a West whose purposes are suddenly cloudy, whose unity is cracked and whose will power is sapped. The dissembler could afford his mocking smile...
...General William F. Dean said that he would never go to war again without a suicide pill as insurance against captivity . . . I shudder to think of the situation that would exist within the armed forces ... if it became commonly acceptable for all military men to gulp the "Dean bean" that they have been gingerly carrying around with them in their watch pocket for use when in danger...
...conclusion, Ike jogged his listeners, like a general talking to his troops. "We don't have to fear ... Of course there are risks, but we do not have to be hysterical . . . America is the greatest force that God has ever allowed to exist on his footstool. As such, it is up to us to lead this world to a peaceful and secure existence, and I assure...
...disadvantage of tritium is that it does not exist in nature. It has to be made at fantastic cost in nuclear reactors. Optimistic physicists hoped that a small priming of tritium would ignite large amounts of light elements that are not so hard to come by. Pessimists feared that too much tritium would be required. They pointed out that each atom of tritium manufactured in a nuclear reactor costs about one atom of U-235 or plutonium, which could be used to better advantage, they thought, in old-style fission bombs...
...French) while ignoring the few at the end of the line who are laying their lives on the line. In the dance halls, the local girls sit in a row, dressed in colored tunics slit high and trousers that look like silk pajamas. Their painted faces advertise that they exist for joyless pleasures. In Saigon officers and officials take siestas. All these things are true. But still, Indo-China is not a very pleasant place to be in, even in the soft and untouched places, for who can be completely indifferent...