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Having gone expansionist, the big-league bosses went antiseptic by cracking down on the illegal but ubiquitous spitball-to the point where a pitcher can't even pick his teeth without being bounced out of the ball game. And if the loss of the good old spitter wasn't enough, the owners also decided to dispense with most of those endearing little rituals that give the game color. In the interest of speeding things up, no longer may a pitcher stand out there shaking off catcher's sign after sign while tension mounts; no longer will...
...months we had been in confinement: we had not, you see, been working.") He returned to Moscow in 1944, just when Stalin was rolling up his sleeves and getting ready to take over Eastern Europe. He arrived in Washington in time to outline the policy of "containment" against an expansionist Russia in the famous 1947 Foreign Affairs article signed...
Within months after V-E day, Stalin's "dream" of acquiring a buffer zone along Russia's western border had come true. Kennan dismisses as absurd the notion that Stalin's expansionist appetite was fed by fears of the U.S. or anger at not being offered enormous sums of American aid. He recalls what a Soviet friend told him in 1944: "This is something you should bear in mind about the Russian. The better things go for him, the more arrogant he is. When we are successful, keep...
This manifested itself in various ways. It manifested itself on the one hand in the imperialism of the turn of the century: in the wave of expansionist fervor that carried us into possession of Hawaii and the Philippines, Puerto Rico and the Canala Zone: all places not contiguous to our national territory. It manifested itself also, strangely enough, in the growth among many Americans of a peculiar emotional and sentimental preoccupation with China and the Asian mainland--a preoccupation quite divorced from considerations of real national interest. And it manifested itself also in a curious enthusiasm for the establishment...
After the First World War, we were able to retire into the dreary isolationism of the 1920's. After World War II, however, this was not possible. The Russian Communists now suddenly were recognized as a hostile and expansionist force...