Word: expansionist
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...their joint communique, the President insisted that Red China's "expansionist pressures against its neighbors endanger the peace of Asia." But Sato politely said that Japan would continue to deal with the Communist Chinese "in such matters as trade on the basis of the principle of separation of political matters from economic matters." Moreover, Sato never did volunteer any further help to the U.S. in its commitments in Southeast Asia...
...humid tropical heat. A land so fragmented that millions upon millions of its human swarm cannot understand the dialect spoken by millions and millions more. So ancient that its past is a palpable presence, and so modern that it has jolted the world with an atomic explosion. So expansionist that its neighbors have lived in varied degrees of fear since before the birth of Christ, and so troubled internally that as often as not it has been unable to feed and clothe itself. So weak, so strong, so arrogant, so humble, so rich, so poor, so wise, so foolish...
...mass production turn the Disney studio into a factory. He watched success transform his McGoo from a Babbitt into a sadist-joke. And worst of all, as supervisor of animation at UPA and then director of Storyboard Productions, his own company, he has felt the expansionist pressures of a commercial world forcing him into administrative positions, removing him from the creative work he loves...
...others, Senator Fulbright distinguishes between a country's internal Communism, with which the U.S. supposedly has no quarrel, and expansionist Communism. From that, it may be a short step to thinking of "good" Communists (Moscow) and "bad" Communists (Peking...
...best results, but he argued that there is no other way. In a warning to the U.S., which is trimming nonmilitary aid to Diem in an effort to pressure him into liberalizing his rule, Diem said that despite the Sino-Soviet split Red China is intensifying "its aggressive and expansionist policy in Asia...